04.26.23
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Washington DC – Senator James Lankford (R-OK), who leads the Republican Party on the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Subcommittee on Government Affairs and Border Control, announced today:Examining the impact of increased migration on communities along the southern border”
Witnesses at today’s hearing included McAlester, Oklahoma Police Chief Kevin Hearrod. Douglas Nichols, Mayor of Yuma, Arizona. Claire McCa II, Mayor of Sierra Vista, Arizona. Francisco Garcia, MD, MPH, Deputy County Administrator and Chief Medical Officer, Pima County, Arizona.
Lankford’s questions to Secretary Hearrod focused on the situation facing local law enforcement due to the rise in criminal activity and drugs from illegal immigration across the southern border. Lankford also talks about the disaster that awaits us when President Biden withdraws Title 42 at the southern border and a shocking backlog of 18 years to hear the first asylum application in New York City. Lankford asked what social media companies need to do to prevent platforms from facilitating people and drug trafficking.
Lankford remains a key speaker in the Senate on securing the southern border, ending catch-and-release and fixing the broken asylum process. I had Secretary Alejandro Mayorcas admit that our asylum process is broken and abused, and that the entire immigration process is broken.
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On the Rise in Drug and Criminal Activity Faced by Oklahoma Law Enforcement as the Southern Border Opens Wide
Lankford: Your testimony also mentions methamphetamine and fentanyl. You also mentioned that this is your understanding that it is primarily coming out of Mexico… What do you know about the origin of the drugs coming into Oklahoma from your own sources in the Oklahoma Department of Narcotics and McAlester? Are you listening?
Here Rod: The source of our drug starts in Mexico, which crosses the border and acts as a drug, or perhaps a precursor, and when it enters Texas, it is usually converted into a drug for us, or methamphetamine or fentanyl. already brought in. Usually where I live they come in from Dallas, Texas. Cartels, mules distribute it through Dallas, Texas, through Highway 69, in Macalester…
About a potentially 18-year backlog period for asylum hearings as our asylum process is broken
Lankford: You said an individual would come in so they could track you down. We need courts closer to the border. Why?
Nichols: What’s really happening is that people are being released until future court dates, which could be three, four, five years away.
Lankford: Oh let me make it worse If an individual is crossing Yuma, Arizona, as you’ve seen this process, you know, when they cross the border, at the Border Patrol, with them, they say, “Where do I apply for asylum?” go through a process called can you get through it? For example, if they chose New York City now and said, “I’m going to New York,” they would be released on their own approval and told they could go to New York any way they wanted. Connections with other organizations. The next date for their first hearing, not the decision to accept asylum, is now 2033, the next available date in New York City. Wait 10 years before doing the first hoop. The next hoop is eight years later. So, for individuals who want to apply for asylum in Yuma, it will be 18 years until a final decision is made. I don’t want to get in your way, but it’s worse than you think.
Nichols: It’s much worse than I think. As you know, the other day he was told there were 660,000 people waiting to cross the border when Title 42 was withdrawn. They arrive within a month, and when they arrive, they set out on time to places like New York City.
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