{"id":1784234,"date":"2022-12-22T13:18:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T18:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1784234"},"modified":"2022-12-22T13:18:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T18:18:23","slug":"sen-james-lankford-paints-frightening-picture-of-what-is-happening-at-southern-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-james-lankford-paints-frightening-picture-of-what-is-happening-at-southern-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. James Lankford Paints Frightening Picture Of What Is Happening At Southern Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsen-james-lankford-paints-frightening-picture-of-what-is-happening-at-southern-border%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1784234&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Oklahoma GOP Senator James Lankford painted a frightening picture of what is happening at the southern border, during a debate on the Senate floor over a proposed omnibus spending package.<\/p>\n<p>Lankford began by noting the lassitude of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in reporting the massive numbers of illegal immigrants crossing into the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the 21st of December, and we don\u2019t have information from the Department of Homeland Security on how many people illegally crossed out border in November,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Lankford pointed out that former head of DHS Jeh Johnson said that during his tenure he got a report every day as to how many people had illegally crossed the border the day before. He noted that Johnson had said when he was head of DHS that he knew it was going to be a very bad day when 1,000 people crossed the border illegally the day before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBest guess over the last 24 hours?\u201d Lankford said. \u201c9,000 people illegally crossed our border in the last 24 hours. \u2026 The Secretary does know because they keep records to the hour but they don\u2019t let Congress know that because they don\u2019t want the American people to know what\u2019s really happening on the border right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo put it in perspective, what\u2019s going on on our southern border, even before the Title 42 authority goes away \u2026 the Obama administration, the big year of the largest surge that happened on our southern border during the Obama administration was just over half a million people illegally crossed that year,\u201d he declared. \u201cThe best we can tell, we\u2019ve had half a million people illegally cross our border in the last two months. This is full-on crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lankford pointed out that in 2022, \u201c1.3 million people have crossed our border illegally, less than 70,000 have actually been deported this year. That is a record-low number.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve asked the Secretary how many individuals have had criminal vetting from the country of origin, and his answer was, \u2018I\u2019ll get back to you on that,\u2019\u201d Lankford charged. \u201cHe knows the same answer that I do. The answer\u2019s zero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then Lankford warned that Americans had no idea of just who they were letting in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American people believe there\u2019s some kind of vetting happening coming across the border, there\u2019s not. They\u2019re checked to see if they\u2019re on the terror watch list; they\u2019re checked to see if they\u2019ve committed a crime in the United States, but we literally don\u2019t know the individuals crossing the border \u2014 from over 150 countries so far this year \u2014 we literally don\u2019t know if they\u2019re fleeing poverty or fleeing justice. We have no idea because no one\u2019s checked,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lankford said that the vast majority of the immigrants are given parole, enabling them to get a work permit their first day, then they are set up for a hearing with ICE, which could take five years, then 10 years after that \u201cfor the next time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo they\u2019re currently up to 15 years that they\u2019re in the country with a work permit,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma GOP Senator James Lankford painted a frightening picture of what is happening at the southern border, during a debate on the Senate floor over a proposed omnibus spending package. 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