Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene criticized a leaked Senate agreement to implement border security reforms in exchange for funding Ukraine’s war against Russia.
According to details of the deal leaked to the press on Friday, the bipartisan agreement would mandate the detention of all single adult foreign national migrants entering the United States illegally and temporarily shut down the processing of any migrant after the average number of such entries exceeds 5,000, with any other arrivals removed immediately until the two-week average of entries falls below 3,750.
Many Republicans have criticized the deal and its details, claiming that it is insufficient to reduce illegal migrant crossings significantly.
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“The Senate border deal is a border surrender deal, and that means there is NO deal. Dead on arrival,” wrote Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia on Twitter.
“I’ve gotten high fives and fist bumps leaving Texas today. Anyone in the Washington DC bubble who doesn’t think impeaching Mayorkas and shutting down the border invasion isn’t what the people want is totally clueless,” said Greene.
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“If the rumors about the contents of the draft proposals are true, it would have been dead on arrival in the House anyway,” wrote House Speaker Mike Johnson in a letter to members of Congress on Friday, shortly before the details were leaked. Johnson has asserted that “the Senate’s pending proposal would expressly allow as many as 150,000 illegal crossings each month (1.8 million per year) before any new ‘shutdown’ authority could be used.”
The deal is currently being negotiated by Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma, independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, and Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut.
Lankford on Sunday defended the controversial deal on illegal immigration that he has cut with Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democrats.
During multiple media appearances, Lankford claimed conservative critics were overreacting to “internet rumors” about what is in the bill. He argued that he welcomes former President Donald Trump and other critics actually reading the specifics.
Yet Lankford’s optimism was too little too late for the Republican Party in Oklahoma.
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As reported by The Hill, GOP leaders in Lankford’s home state slammed their own senator on Saturday for working with liberals to craft a measure that critics say does nothing to reverse President Joe Biden’s open-border policies.
The Oklahoma GOP’s State Committee, according to an X post by Republican state Sen. Dusty Deevers, passed a resolution that “strongly condemns” Lankford and calls on him to “cease and desist jeopardizing the security and liberty of the people of Oklahoma and of these United States.”
The particulars of the resolution notes that Oklahoma Republicans support “limited” legal immigration and “embrace” those legal immigrants who choose “to assimilate to our American culture, language and values.”
The committee also noted that Oklahoma Republicans oppose a “path to citizenship” for illegals.
Lankford, however, has been “playing fast and loose” with Democrats on border security policy and is violating his oath of office by supporting a plan that permits the “invasion” to continue.
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That referred to a provision in the Lankford-Schumer deal that would allow up to 5,000 people a day — or nearly 2 million a year — to enter the U.S. before the border shuts down.
Lankford claimed on Sunday that is not what the bill allows. But did not offer details of how the critics are wrong.
“Authorizing several thousand people to invade our borders before any action can be taken is contrary to the oath that Senator Lankford took to the Constitution and therefore outside of the area that he is authorized to negotiate in,” the resolution stated.
Thus, the Oklahoma GOP declared in the document that it “strongly condemns” him for his participation in the Democrats’ proposal and that if he did not quit, the party “will cease all support for him.”
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