On 2/3/2022, Senator James Lankford addresses his colleagues on the Senate floor on his recent oversight trip to the US-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley section. He said,

Now you tell me what happens if someone illegally crosses the border, they’re processed within 48 hours, given a document that says you can be here six years to go anywhere you want to go in the country, what do you think they’re going to do when they pick up their cell phone? I’ll tell you what’s happening. They’re texting a family member back home. They’re texting friends back home and saying I got in and here’s how I did it. Come join me. And they are.

So six courtrooms, 120 meeting spaces, all the ancillary space. This is a massive complex. When I was down there last week, they had so far handled three people… Why? Because the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy, MPP, whatever you want to call it, they created a system with so many exceptions in it that they could tell the federal courts, yes, we’re doing it but in reality they’re not. Realizing this month they had about 45K people illegally cross the border in this zone just in January. But only three they made eligible to go through this process of the 45K. Why? Well, they made a whole set of stipulations.

They said if you come in a family group, you’re not eligible to come in here. If you declare you have a medical issue of any type, no matter how minor it may be, you’re not eligible to be able to go through this program. If you’re LGBT, you’re not eligible to go through this program. If you’re 75 years or older, you’re not eligible to able to go through this program. If you’re Nicaraguan, you’re not eligible to go through this program. If you’re Venezuelan, you’re not eligible to go through this program.

If people pay between $4,000 and $30,000 a person and there were two million people that crossed illegally last year that we know of, that’s $10 billion paid.

I actually believe the Biden Administration policy is working exactly as they designed to work. Exactly. They created a structure and a system to allow as many people as possible to be able to cross our southern border and it’s working exactly as they wanted. Why do I say that? When you announce they are going to change every policy for how we’re interdicting individuals when they cancel agreements with Central America that’s actually limiting the number of people there and then you don’t replace it with anything.

The Biden Administration says they’re going to close the gaps. I hope you don’t miss it. They’ve announced the gaps are closed. Can you see this tiny little picket fence on the bottom here? Probably not. This tiny little picket fence that’s at the bottom, that’s what they say has closed the gaps. It’s not just open. They have a tiny little decorative fence there and that’s their announced we’ve closed the gap. That’s not going to deter anyone. They know it full well. It’s not designed to deter anyone. It’s designed to allow the administration to say we closed the gap and hope no one looks at it because that gap will fulfill exactly what it is designed to fulfill, that is, to allow people in, not keep people out. That doesn’t help the Border Patrol and they know it. Because it’s not designed to be able to help the Border Patrol. And they know it.

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