James Lankford: “We saw 20,000 people that even the Biden administration when…”

“I hammered away on them over and over again on that. The Trump administration has arrested and deported almost 50,000 of those 70,000. But We saw 20,000 people that even the Biden administration when they crossed the border said they may be terrorists, they may not be, they come from one of those areas, but we just have no information, but they just let them in anyway. So this has always been an issue. And then there's all those gotaways. We have no idea who they are, where they went. The President says that the United States is on alert.” (01:41–01:52)

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