Lankford Calls for VP Harris to Answer Tough Questions During Border Visit

Lankford to VP Harris: “Do you regret the policies that you implemented that you oversaw for the previous three and a half years that have led to the chaos at our border?”

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OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) called on the media to ask and Vice President Kamala Harris to answer tough questions on the Biden-Harris Administration’s failure to secure the border, and called out the White House for taking repeated steps to weaken border security. Lankford serves as the lead Republican on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Government Operations and Border Management.

Excerpts:

VP Harris Was NOT Involved on Border Bill

Lankford: She said over and over again that she would sign the border bill – that she was a part of it. Quite frankly, she was not a part of it, even though that she said publicly that she and Joe reached out to conservative Republicans to work on this bill, she never actually reached out. She was never a part of the negotiations, nor were any of her staff ever a part of those negotiations around the bill. She should be asked a lot about what wasn’t included in the bill, though, because Democrats would not allow the really strongest parts of it included at all.

This Administration Must Answer for Border Chaos

Lankford: What regrets do you have that you didn’t enforce the border for the first three and a half years, that you only started enforcing any border policies at all in the months and weeks leading up to the election? Why did you not do the border wall, and you actually ended construction of the border wall on day one?…What are you doing to be able to track down the 100,000 children that this Administration has lost? These are unaccompanied minors that have crossed the border, that they came in the United States, and now 100,000 of them. This Administration has lost track of that. We don’t know where they are. We don’t know who their sponsors are. We don’t know where they are. What are you doing about that?

A PR Stop Doesn’t Fix Wide-Open Southern Border

Lankford: You can’t get serious about the border in the days leading up to an election. All Americans remember the previous three and a half years, and we know the chaos that has been at the border. We as Americans want this to stop. So I would hope that someone would ask her these point blank questions. Do you regret the policies that you implemented that you oversaw for the previous three and a half years that have led to the chaos at our border?

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