He is moving the goalpost. He and his supporters would rather have this issue as a campaign issue than to actually take the opportunity that Lankford and Murphy have presented them to solve the problem.
Johnson accuses Trump of shifting focus away from solving border issues for political gain.
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I'm a former law enforcement officer. I have spent much of my career as a law enforcement officer. I will enforce the law. I will do what it takes to secure our border.
Now, let me take that a step further, I think this President has an opportunity…at — and a lot of people won’t want to hear this — comprehensive immigration reform.
The numbers, now, are something like, last time I looked, 12,000 a month. The prior administration sometimes saw that in a day.
You have to work with us. Don’t wait for there to be a tragic incident in your city before you decide you need to work with ICE.
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