Three senators are working together to put together a border security agreement that is acceptable to both Democrats and Republicans. Senator James Lankford (D-OK) is the lead Republican in the negotiations. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) are the others.
Let’s be clear from the start – the language of the border security agreement has not been released. No one has seen it. Yet, it seems that the Republican Party in Oklahoma moved forward with their disapproval of Lankford’s work on it and has censured him. It sounds as though they may have jumped the gun but until the text in the bill are made public, that can’t be proved.
The sticking point is the alleged allowance of 5,000 illegal immigrants per day being the cut-off number before the border is closed. That is supposed to be the magic number. If true, it is completely unacceptable to…
