Mace: Well, I find it very ironic,
Senator Lankford’s comments there, because this bill keeps the border wide open. There are so many loopholes in this bill, it it'll make your head spin. And any Republican that supports it, supports open borders, because it's going to allow Secretary Mayorkas to have full discretion on who comes in above that 5,000 limit. It lowers the standard for those that are seeking asylum. And look, the American people are tired of being an ATM machine for the illegal aliens that are coming across our border every single day. And the more that I read the language in this bill, the more frustrated I get with it, because it's not what we’re being sold.
MacCallum: I think we're all trying to figure out this bill. Have you read all 370 pages of this bill?
Mace: We are working through it. We have about 50 pages more to go. But from what we can tell and I'm going to put forth a statement once we finish reading the bill, the measures that we feel are extremely undesirable that keep our border open, that water down the asylum system. It's not good for the country.
MacCallum: It’s exactly the opposite! That's why I'm asking, you know, and obviously Senator Lankford and his colleagues worked hard to negotiate something. You know, it's hard to do some actual negotiation. And they say no new asylum claims would be allowed. Anybody crossing would be removed…
(Mace interrupts)
MacCallum: Hold on. And he said, you know, this it ends the whole idea of I made it to U.S. soil and now you have to process me. It increases detention beds, doubles the deportation flights and adds $650 million to expand the border wall,
which is the same language and funding that's in H.R. 2. So, you know, isn't isn't getting something better than getting nothing because this problem isn't going away.
