About a year ago, Oklahoma Senator James Lankford took a strategic turn to the hard right and started using “Joe Biden’s crisis at the border” as a campaign rallying cry in a desperate attempt to appeal to racist Oklahoma voters and fend off a primary challenge from crazed right-wing Christian nationalist Jackson Lahmayer.
Here was his first tweet on the topic:
President Biden’s executive order to halt border construction threatens national security & safety. Agents along the border have told me physical barriers slow illegal immigration & push people toward points of entry allowing agents to manage immigrants in a safer environment.
— Sen. James Lankford (@SenatorLankford) January 21, 2021