Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) can redeem himself on immigration by denouncing the catch-and-release border bill he let DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas write.
Collins, Murkowski, and Romney are not the future of the Republican Party. If Lankford wants to have a future as a leader of the Republican Party,, he needs to get right on immigration. And Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is apparently going to give him that opportunity.
Schumer believes that by blaming former President Donald Trump for killing bipartisan border reform, Senate Democrats can shift the blame for the “” from President Joe Biden, with whom it belongs, and to Republicans who are blocking allegedly essential border reform. Accordingly, Schumer plans to bring Lankford’s failed border bill back to the Senate floor for another vote.
This puts Lankford in a tough spot. Does he want to be a tool of Biden and Senate Democrats, echoing their completely false claims about the cause of the border crisis and what is needed to fix it, or should he be honest about who caused the border crisis and admit the legislation he agreed toto read it before making up their minds. The problem is, the more Republicans actually read the bill, the more it became apparent Lankford had made a huge mistake.
Instead of repeating his previous false claims about the bill, Lankford should say he was misled by the lead White House negotiator, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Mayorkas is an immigration attorney by trade and has decades of experience enforcing, litigating, and creating federal immigration law. Lankford has no immigration law experience. Mayorkas has forgotten more immigration law than Lankford will ever know.
Other senators have rebuilt their careers after immigration missteps. Sen. Marco Rubio is now reportedly on Trump’s vice presidential short list. But he didn’t get there by parroting false Democratic talking points about border security. He got there by becoming a born-again border hawk, a hawk who voted against Lankford’s catch-and-release bill.
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