{"id":2431731,"date":"2025-05-07T05:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lankford-pushes-congress-to-pass-bill-to-make-border-security-permanent-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T05:29:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T09:29:02","slug":"lankford-pushes-congress-to-pass-bill-to-make-border-security-permanent-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lankford-pushes-congress-to-pass-bill-to-make-border-security-permanent-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Lankford pushes Congress to pass bill to make border security permanent &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Flankford-pushes-congress-to-pass-bill-to-make-border-security-permanent-washington-examiner%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=2431731&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>Senator James Lankford (R-OK) is advocating for Congress to pass a new immigration bill that would solidify conservative border security measures before President Donald Trump leaves office. During an interview, Lankford, a key contributor to a bipartisan border bill that ultimately failed to pass in the Senate, highlighted the necessity for proactive legislation to manage legal challenges and ensure effective border control. He expressed concerns over the high number of illegal crossings under President Joe Biden and insisted that future administrations need strong legal frameworks in place to avoid similar crises.<\/p>\n<p>Lankford&#8217;s remarks come <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >amid ongoing legal disputes affecting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-flees-podium-without-answering-questions-after-delivering-remarks-in-delaware-video\/\" title=\"Biden Flees Podium without Answering Questions After Delivering Remarks in Delaware (VIDEO)\">immigration policies<\/a> instituted<\/a> by the Trump governance, with multiple lawsuits impacting the administration&#8217;s border strategies. He mentioned that the failure to pass a comprehensive bill previously, which garnered support but faced opposition from some conservatives, has left critical gaps and uncertainties in border enforcement. The proposed bill aimed to enhance the government&#8217;s ability to swiftly process and deport individuals when border facilities are at capacity, a measure Lankford argues is essential to handle current and future immigration challenges effectively.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Lankford pushes Congress to pass immigration bill to make border security permanent<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2114124\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>EXCLUSIVE &mdash;&nbsp;<\/strong>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/james-lankford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">James Lankford<\/a> (R-OK) anticipates that Congress will need to pass a bill that locks in conservative border and immigration policies before President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> leaves office.<\/p>\n<p>Lankford, one of three co-authors who spent months in late 2023 drafting a bipartisan border bill that ultimately failed to make it through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Senate<\/a>, said legal challenges in court are part of the reason that Republicans in Congress ought to be thinking now about legislation, during an interview with the <em>Washington Examiner.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3403370\/crypto-leaders-race-lock-down-stablecoin-bill-support-senate-vote\/\">Crypto leaders race to lock down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/crypto-leaders-race-to-lock-down-stablecoin-bill-support\/\" title=\"Crypto leaders race to lock down stablecoin ... support\">stablecoin bill support ahead<\/a> of Senate vote<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3403169\/doug-collins-defends-va-workforce-reduction\/\">VA chief defends workforce cuts and promises to protect veteran care at Senate hearing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3402522\/senate-confirms-frank-bisignano-new-social-security-chief-push-reform\/\">Senate confirms Frank Bisignano as new Social Security chief amid push for reform&nbsp;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;There will be a need for some legislation,&rdquo; Lankford told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> during a phone call. &ldquo;Right now, there&rsquo;s not a need for it. I think once the court makes some rulings, then we&rsquo;ll see what authorities are still needed to be able to make clear so that no one has to question again the power of the president to be able to protect the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Lankford said regardless of how the courts rule in the more than 50 immigration-related lawsuits that plaintiffs have brought against the Trump administration since Jan. 20, concrete plans will need to be put into place to ensure the border does not see the millions of illegal crossings that it did under President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Who is president five years from now? How are they going to handle the border issues?&rdquo; said Lankford. &ldquo;I want to make sure the law is strong and the authorities are there &mdash;&nbsp;that no matter who is there, we don&rsquo;t have another experience like what we had in 2021, 22, 23.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Since taking office, Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3292389\/trump-sign-10-executive-orders-border-immigration-first-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">declared<\/a> a national emergency at the border, dispatched 10,000 troops, restarted &ldquo;Remain in Mexico,&rdquo; restarted border wall planning and construction, designated criminal cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, started expeditious removals of illegal immigrants, declared an invasion at the border,&nbsp;and taken other actions.<\/p>\n<p>The legal blowback has been significant with three of the immigration-related lawsuits against Trump already having made it before the Supreme Court for review. Lankford said some of these legal challenges and potential changes to border security during the Trump administration could have been prevented if the bill that he worked on with Sens. Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) had been passed in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I heard a conservative commentator two weeks ago that was upset at some of the courts and ruling &hellip; and the court may tell them, &lsquo;No, they don&rsquo;t have authority to be able to do that,&rdquo; Lankford said. &ldquo;This conservative commentator said, &lsquo;Somebody needs to bring a bill to be able to close all these loopholes so we never have this court challenge.&rsquo; And I just laughed when I heard it, and I thought, &lsquo;That&rsquo;s exactly correct, and that&rsquo;s exactly what I was trying to do, that there would be such clear authority for the executive branch to be able to use that power to be able to enforce our border, that there wouldn&rsquo;t be a court challenge to it.&#8217;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the negotiations in late 2023 and into February 2024, the number of immigrants apprehended by the Border Patrol for entering the United States from Mexico illegally hit an all-time high of 250,000 during the month of December 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The trio of senators&rsquo; border bill was extensive. The U.S. Border Patrol union, the National Border Patrol Council, endorsed it, but immigration hawks and Trump himself came out against it, ultimately sidelining the effort to permanently address border issues in a bipartisan way.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the bill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=James+Lankford+has+four+immigration+to-dos+for+Trump+after+visiting+border&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">would have<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-banks-illegal-aliens-to-account-for-most-of-americas-population-growth-if-biden-ends-title-42\/\" title=\"Jim Banks: Illegal Aliens to &#039;Account for Most of America&#039;s Population Growth&#039; if Biden Ends Title 42\">allowed federal immigration officials<\/a> to quickly resolve and possibly remove immigrants from the country when facilities at the border are maxed out of capacity to hold people.<\/p>\n<p>At present, expedited removal can only happen at the border for people in custody, not for illegal immigrants arrested in the interior of the country. Having the ability to quickly remove people arrested within the United States would be a game changer now as the White House has its hands tied with too little detention space to detain immigrants before removing them.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3401402\/border-visit-james-lankford-remarkable-shift\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VISIT TO BORDER REVEALED &lsquo;REMARKABLE&rsquo; SHIFT BETWEEN BIDEN AND TRUMP: LANKFORD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A furious Sinema unloaded on House and Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/republicans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Republicans<\/a> last spring for their refusal to consider the bill, calling out their hypocrisy and banning them from visiting her border state.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We produced a bill that finally, after decades of all talk and no action, secures the border and solves the border crisis,&rdquo; Sinema said during a fiery floor speech Wednesday afternoon. &ldquo;We produced a bill many thought impossible. Our bill overhauls the broken system. It stops the misuse of parole, and it closes the border during surges, ensuring the quick detention and deportation of migrants who don&rsquo;t have a legal right to be here. We end catch and release. We add more detention beds. We increase deportation flights. We quickly decide asylum claims.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2114124\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2114124\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lankford urges Congress to enact a permanent immigration bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2655,"featured_media":2431732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/senator-james-lankford.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[33709,4402,11252,4762,32076],"class_list":["post-2431731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-border-security","tag-congress","tag-lankford","tag-legislation","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/senator-james-lankford.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2431731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2431735,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431731\/revisions\/2431735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2431732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2431731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2431731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2431731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}