In the case of Lankford, he is a Christian that mistakenly believes helping about 1% percent of the world’s poor at American taxpayer expense will help him enter Heaven.
The problem of poverty must be solved worldwide.
Allowing 1.8 million invaders in annually and having 1.8 million Americans get tossed aside annually is a recipe for civil war and not a recipe for poverty elimination.
Remember when Obama offered the Commerce Secretary to Judd Gregg (R-NH) back in 2009? The plot was to get Judd to resign and then have the Democrat governor of New Hampshire to appoint a Democrat and give Obama a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority (IMHO despite the governor's promise to fill the seat with another Republican).
Judd accepted the Commerce office until Obama announced that he was moving the Census from Commerce to the White House, making Judd's Cabinet position useless. Judd then withdrew from confirmation and kept his Senate seat.
I fear that Senate Republicans are being suckered again by having Lankford be the front-man for this bill, so that Democrats can hide behind Lankford to make the border crisis a Republican problem going into the 2024 election.
-PJ