Senate Democrats Refuse to Include Measures to Address Border Crisis: Lankford

Senate Democrats negotiating with Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) on provisions to reform U.S. immigration laws, refused to even discuss including any provisions to relieve problems in big cities like New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago connected to the flood of illegal immigrants enabled by President Joe Biden.

Asked by The Epoch Times if any provisions addressing such problems were included or discussed, Mr. Lankford said such discussion was off limits from the beginning of the negotiations that weeks ago.

“It does not, this is a border security bill and it is an issue of how do we actually secure our southern border but it does not address those that are currently here. That was one of the red lines that we all had at the very beginning. The Democrats were very clear they would not be willing to address those,” Mr. Lankford responded during a late evening digital sit-down with reporters.

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