"If we're pursuing everything, we very often end up with nothing. If we're pursuing someone coming later to fix it, later seems to never come. When we have a moment to fix things, we should fix as many things as we can then, then come back later and fix the rest." Yup, unfortunately most people don't seem to get this. Too many people give up opportunities to improve things now if they think it somehow makes the other party look bad. And it's usually a failing strategy because voters are too unpredictable.
A lot of us appreciate the work you were trying to do. Under normal circumstances, this would have made a huge difference at the border. This is not normal times for the republican party. I am sorry.
It's very brave for this man to admit the truth about how Trump killed the bill for his campaign and to not only admit it on national television, on a biased network, but to proudly display it on his platform. We need more people like this man
Fact check: Trump didn't kill the so-called bipartisan border bill. The grassroots was already up in arms, as were more than enough Republican congressmen and senators to kill the bill. Senator Lankford was McConnell's stooge. Lankford wasn't up for reelection until 2029, and so, they figured he was the right man for the job. They assumed we'd just forget about it by the time he was up for reelection. The legislation was a Uniparty project and a defacto open border bill that would have made catch and release permanent, authorized 1.8 million border crossers a year, granted automatic work permits to illegals, and forever relegated border patrol to paper pushers whose only job was to parole millions of illegals every year into the interior. It was as much an anti-immigration bill as the Inflation Reduction Act was an anti-inflation bill. It died because it was stupid, dangerous, and insane. Trump didn't like the bill. Nor did any sane American. Once again, shame on Senator Lankford for even proposing such a dumpster fire. We will not forget.
The current law says we have to take in all asylum seekers because it's intl humanitarian law to... The bill would have at least capped the number per day (which breaks intl law but nobody is going to call the US on it considering the situation). But yeah the problem isn't in enforcing the law, it's that the law is abusable in it's current state, and repubs killed an important change...
The existing law is the reason what we have this crisis in the first place. Are you guys illiterate or what? The existing law literally encourage illegal immigration. People have more benefits coming here illegally than legally. People like you shouldn’t vote.
Enforce in existing law that's all that needs to happen I don't want to give Trump more power and I don't want to give Biden more power we just need to enforce all the laws that are on the books this bill was not a border security bill it was immigration reform!!!
The existing law is the problem. Currently it follows Intl Humanitarian Law which insists uncapped Asylum Seekers. Right now people are showing up at the border and claiming asylum seeking status, which requires us by LAW to process their case. This bill was seeking to cap that number to 5000 which breaks intl humanitarian law - but nobody is going to complain much on that. - The problem is that a loophole is being abused and our courts are backed up and we can't process all the false asylum seekers.
Read what you wrote again if you can realize how d*mb what you saying is. The existing law is the problem. It was written in a different time. You don’t even know the history of your country and you are the one talking too much. Go educate yourself. It’s not about giving more power to the president. When Congress pass a bill they don’t give more power to the president they just pass a new law. The existing law is being enforced all right with all the loopholes he has. The existing laws encourage illegal immigration. You have more benefits coming here illegally than legally.
I wish someone would have asked what the plan is to do now, with the millions of illegal immigrants they have funded to come here. We might as well deal with it now, they are here because Obiden planned it, so what is the plan now ??
How exactly did Obama or Biden plan this…? Trump dealt with it worse than anyone. He never once tried to actually solve the problem. All he did was use it as a political weapon. Even worse multiple people in his inner circle either directly or indirectly stole from a fraudulent “private fundraiser” that never could’ve realistically built any wall because ITS ON FEDERAL LAND. Trump himself used $19B to tear down effective wall that had nothing wrong with it & replaced it with a grossly inferior wall that not only can be climbed by obese people with little upper body strength but also can literally be blown over by wind…! Wanna know the kicker?…it cost another $30B to fix it. $49B COMPLETELY WASTED. The illegal immigration problem cannot & will not be fixed by a new border wall. There already is a border wall on every part of the border people can easily cross. 90% of the border that doesn’t have a wall is completely impassable & the rest is so isolated & dangerous no one ever tries to cross because there’s a 99% chance they’ll die. Trump doesn’t care about illegal immigration nor does any Republican or Democrat that represents a territory/state that’s not on the border. It’s a fear mongering scare tactic both sides are using to raise money from people.
What I would like to know senator Lankford is WHY did you allow/include the number of 5000 migrants a day into that Bill, why not a much smaller number like 0, how about suspending the asylum process until this is gotten under control, why not put extra agents on the backlog of legal immigrants who have put in the paperwork to come legally, I'm waiting for my wife's paperwork to finish processing, when I turned in the last of the paperwork it was 18 months to process,we are currently at 19 months, then 20 and 22 now it's up to 24 months, by the time we get to 24 months it will be 30, then 35, we will never get caught up to the time frame, it's terrible that the spouse of a U.S. citizen has to keep waiting for illegals to be process 🤬
How hard is it to understand that Senator Lankford doesn't have unilateral authority over the border? How hard is it to understand that the bill that was passed in the Senate is a good bill, but because of gamesmanship from Trump and his MAGA ring kissers we don't even have that? The bill doesn't simply allow 5,000 a day into the US, it allows for the detention of 5,000 to be processed and deported. It also allows for additional judges and staff to process and additional border patrol. Trump has absolutely no governmental authority, but the MAGA reps in the House are taking orders from this incompetent bungling idiot instead of doing the job that they were elected to do. Shame on every one of those that are relinquishing their authority to him. It's an absolute disgrace.
Limiting the asylum process already goes against international law (but we have some flexibility being the united state), but reducing that to 0 would get quite a bit of side eyeing by the intl community. Technically granting asylum is supposed to be an uncapped process by intl humanitarian law, but it's getting abused so badly that we have some leeway on it. To be pedantic we wouldn't be allowing 5000 migrants, it would be capping 5000 asylum seekers. The sooner we cap that number the more capable we will be in processing and removing false asylum seekers....
Did you watch the interview? Did you understand what Senator Lankford said? Go back and rewatch he explains his colleagues didn't understand the bill or used false taking points to kill it and help Trump
Ever wonder why Melania & Barron are dual citizens. They must pledge allegiance to two countries. Never before has a first Lady pledge to another country. WTF!!
Arbitrarily, or with due process of law? I know how much you patriots want to uphold the constitution. However, you did have a chance to pass a bipartisan border bill, how did that go?
How? Lol are you confused? TRUMP got his Republican senator buddies to kill their own bill so he can use the border as campaign leverage. This isn't hard to follow. You MAGAs have no idea how the government works. Still think Harris oversaw the border as some mythical czar 😂
I'm not understanding your plan or insight. You need. Migrant workers.. (That want those jobs.) First off. You don't need the gangs and the rest. Millions. Do you need 30 million? (yes!30!) in Oklahoma? If we've got this level of failure in congress your migrant workforce is never going to be valued. At this time we need to save, let alone work. World health is going to come in.. They'll pass whatever and they'll lock us down worse than covid. You won't need workers then eh? So I get the migrant workers but you get the wrong ones and they'll end your state. End it. That's what they're here for. Trying to get some idea of what to do.. Us doing.. Not them. They won't. Look.. Stay strong. Stay safe. I hope we can somewhat normalize soon💪🇺🇸🆘
@@TannisHenriksen you think Oklahoma is only sate that needs them come on ok we just sent 36 billion across the ocean to Israel which has free education at all levels and free healthcare retirement well before our mandatory minimum most of there workers who do shit work are imported out of country at slave wages and no guarantee of any citizenship so you'd rather spend our tax dollars abroad to a country with little if any strategic value instead of investing it in our neighbors wow that's some shitty math
Thank you Senator. You did your best.
"If we're pursuing everything, we very often end up with nothing. If we're pursuing someone coming later to fix it, later seems to never come. When we have a moment to fix things, we should fix as many things as we can then, then come back later and fix the rest."
Yup, unfortunately most people don't seem to get this. Too many people give up opportunities to improve things now if they think it somehow makes the other party look bad. And it's usually a failing strategy because voters are too unpredictable.
A lot of us appreciate the work you were trying to do. Under normal circumstances, this would have made a huge difference at the border. This is not normal times for the republican party. I am sorry.
Exactly, you can't be a republican and be MAGA. You have to pick one. Sadly, most pick MAGA because they are afraid of Trump ruining their careers.
It's very brave for this man to admit the truth about how Trump killed the bill for his campaign and to not only admit it on national television, on a biased network, but to proudly display it on his platform.
We need more people like this man
Needed, Democrats to bring forth much better for Responsible to American Citizen Bills.
No we don't. The bill itself was AWFUL. I have no desire grading GOPsters on a curve.
Fact check: Trump didn't kill the so-called bipartisan border bill. The grassroots was already up in arms, as were more than enough Republican congressmen and senators to kill the bill. Senator Lankford was McConnell's stooge. Lankford wasn't up for reelection until 2029, and so, they figured he was the right man for the job. They assumed we'd just forget about it by the time he was up for reelection.
The legislation was a Uniparty project and a defacto open border bill that would have made catch and release permanent, authorized 1.8 million border crossers a year, granted automatic work permits to illegals, and forever relegated border patrol to paper pushers whose only job was to parole millions of illegals every year into the interior.
It was as much an anti-immigration bill as the Inflation Reduction Act was an anti-inflation bill.
It died because it was stupid, dangerous, and insane. Trump didn't like the bill. Nor did any sane American.
Once again, shame on Senator Lankford for even proposing such a dumpster fire. We will not forget.
4:38 - For candidly speaking and holding people accountable much respect for Cavuto. And for his efforts to fix the issue respect for Lankford.
The worst Congress of my lifetime.
The worst GOP by far…it’s remarkable how disorganized they are.
Trump blocked the bill.
At least you tried senator
How many people did Jesus deport from Judea?
Excellent!
Just enforce the EXISTING law!!!!
The current law says we have to take in all asylum seekers because it's intl humanitarian law to... The bill would have at least capped the number per day (which breaks intl law but nobody is going to call the US on it considering the situation). But yeah the problem isn't in enforcing the law, it's that the law is abusable in it's current state, and repubs killed an important change...
The existing law is the reason what we have this crisis in the first place. Are you guys illiterate or what? The existing law literally encourage illegal immigration. People have more benefits coming here illegally than legally. People like you shouldn’t vote.
@@Waterfiendz👏 👏 👏
I am sure @paulmike1166 understands this, but chooses not to acknowledge what you are saying
Liars. He wrote the legislation.
"Democracies get the government they deserve." -Montaigne
Enforce in existing law that's all that needs to happen I don't want to give Trump more power and I don't want to give Biden more power we just need to enforce all the laws that are on the books this bill was not a border security bill it was immigration reform!!!
Why didn’t Trump fix it?
The existing law is the problem. Currently it follows Intl Humanitarian Law which insists uncapped Asylum Seekers. Right now people are showing up at the border and claiming asylum seeking status, which requires us by LAW to process their case. This bill was seeking to cap that number to 5000 which breaks intl humanitarian law - but nobody is going to complain much on that. - The problem is that a loophole is being abused and our courts are backed up and we can't process all the false asylum seekers.
Read what you wrote again if you can realize how d*mb what you saying is. The existing law is the problem. It was written in a different time. You don’t even know the history of your country and you are the one talking too much. Go educate yourself. It’s not about giving more power to the president. When Congress pass a bill they don’t give more power to the president they just pass a new law. The existing law is being enforced all right with all the loopholes he has. The existing laws encourage illegal immigration. You have more benefits coming here illegally than legally.
OK but the law on the books are almost 45 years old. Things have changed since then.
God bless you Senator Lankford
If gods existed do you think they'd give a crap about THIS dude? 🤣
I wish someone would have asked what the plan is to do now, with the millions of illegal immigrants they have funded to come here. We might as well deal with it now, they are here because Obiden planned it, so what is the plan now ??
How exactly did Obama or Biden plan this…? Trump dealt with it worse than anyone. He never once tried to actually solve the problem. All he did was use it as a political weapon. Even worse multiple people in his inner circle either directly or indirectly stole from a fraudulent “private fundraiser” that never could’ve realistically built any wall because ITS ON FEDERAL LAND. Trump himself used $19B to tear down effective wall that had nothing wrong with it & replaced it with a grossly inferior wall that not only can be climbed by obese people with little upper body strength but also can literally be blown over by wind…! Wanna know the kicker?…it cost another $30B to fix it. $49B COMPLETELY WASTED. The illegal immigration problem cannot & will not be fixed by a new border wall. There already is a border wall on every part of the border people can easily cross. 90% of the border that doesn’t have a wall is completely impassable & the rest is so isolated & dangerous no one ever tries to cross because there’s a 99% chance they’ll die. Trump doesn’t care about illegal immigration nor does any Republican or Democrat that represents a territory/state that’s not on the border. It’s a fear mongering scare tactic both sides are using to raise money from people.
Well I’m not ever voting for you ever again.
What I would like to know senator Lankford is WHY did you allow/include the number of 5000 migrants a day into that Bill, why not a much smaller number like 0, how about suspending the asylum process until this is gotten under control, why not put extra agents on the backlog of legal immigrants who have put in the paperwork to come legally, I'm waiting for my wife's paperwork to finish processing, when I turned in the last of the paperwork it was 18 months to process,we are currently at 19 months, then 20 and 22 now it's up to 24 months, by the time we get to 24 months it will be 30, then 35, we will never get caught up to the time frame, it's terrible that the spouse of a U.S. citizen has to keep waiting for illegals to be process 🤬
How hard is it to understand that Senator Lankford doesn't have unilateral authority over the border? How hard is it to understand that the bill that was passed in the Senate is a good bill, but because of gamesmanship from Trump and his MAGA ring kissers we don't even have that? The bill doesn't simply allow 5,000 a day into the US, it allows for the detention of 5,000 to be processed and deported. It also allows for additional judges and staff to process and additional border patrol. Trump has absolutely no governmental authority, but the MAGA reps in the House are taking orders from this incompetent bungling idiot instead of doing the job that they were elected to do. Shame on every one of those that are relinquishing their authority to him. It's an absolute disgrace.
Holy💩! How much or little did you watch/listen to what he said(which is what has been disseminated by many policy analysts) smh
Limiting the asylum process already goes against international law (but we have some flexibility being the united state), but reducing that to 0 would get quite a bit of side eyeing by the intl community. Technically granting asylum is supposed to be an uncapped process by intl humanitarian law, but it's getting abused so badly that we have some leeway on it. To be pedantic we wouldn't be allowing 5000 migrants, it would be capping 5000 asylum seekers. The sooner we cap that number the more capable we will be in processing and removing false asylum seekers....
Did you watch the interview? Did you understand what Senator Lankford said? Go back and rewatch he explains his colleagues didn't understand the bill or used false taking points to kill it and help Trump
@Waterfiendz Finish the near done Fence, Close the Border from open crossings, they could have done that at any time and avoided all this mess!
He needs to be primaried!!! Worst senator in the country!!
Thank God the southern govenors have passed open carry. May have to enforce the law ourselves
Ever wonder why Melania & Barron are dual citizens. They must pledge allegiance to two countries. Never before has a first Lady pledge to another country. WTF!!
All talk
Arbitrarily, or with due process of law? I know how much you patriots want to uphold the constitution. However, you did have a chance to pass a bipartisan border bill, how did that go?
@@gustoworld ahhh yes, they uphold the constitution alright (unless they need to apply it to Trump lmao)
@@Y3S1919Well said
Worst senator in the country!!
No, that would be Bernie Sanders.
Trying to blame this on Trump-- while somehow not blaming him? Wow you're a weasel!
He wasn't lying
@@ericanderson2919 Harris already had the Authority to finish the Fence, one the Bordsd, Process Asylum Seekers before entering.
So Republicans killed their own bill for what reason? Even Fox points it out 😂 y'all defend that clown til the day he dies.
so youre blaming trump while hes NOT in office for this? LOL man thats pathetic. Hey guess what Biden can end this at literally any moment but wont.
How? Lol are you confused? TRUMP got his Republican senator buddies to kill their own bill so he can use the border as campaign leverage. This isn't hard to follow.
You MAGAs have no idea how the government works. Still think Harris oversaw the border as some mythical czar 😂
They Literally said trump made a Phone call to kill this bill, what part of that are you not sure is Trumps fault? Are you confused?
Oklahoma depends on migrant workers and lankford knows this but it takes money not just closing the border will work
I'm not understanding your plan or insight. You need. Migrant workers.. (That want those jobs.) First off. You don't need the gangs and the rest. Millions. Do you need 30 million? (yes!30!) in Oklahoma? If we've got this level of failure in congress your migrant workforce is never going to be valued. At this time we need to save, let alone work. World health is going to come in.. They'll pass whatever and they'll lock us down worse than covid. You won't need workers then eh? So I get the migrant workers but you get the wrong ones and they'll end your state. End it. That's what they're here for. Trying to get some idea of what to do.. Us doing.. Not them. They won't. Look.. Stay strong. Stay safe. I hope we can somewhat normalize soon💪🇺🇸🆘
@@TannisHenriksen you think Oklahoma is only sate that needs them come on ok we just sent 36 billion across the ocean to Israel which has free education at all levels and free healthcare retirement well before our mandatory minimum most of there workers who do shit work are imported out of country at slave wages and no guarantee of any citizenship so you'd rather spend our tax dollars abroad to a country with little if any strategic value instead of investing it in our neighbors wow that's some shitty math