Biden DOJ ‘hypocritical’ for suing Oklahoma over immigration law: Lankford

Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) blasted the Biden administration for suing Oklahoma ahead of the implementation of a new law that would allow nonfederal police to arrest illegal immigrants.

Lankford sent Attorney General Merrick Garland a letter Thursday that labeled the Biden Department of Justice as “hypocritical” for attempting to halt the state’s immigration enforcement efforts — a law that the senator said state leaders back home passed because of federal inaction to secure the border three and a half years into the illegal immigration crisis.

“It is hypocritical for the Biden Administration to refuse to act to secure the southern border while trying to block Oklahoma from doing its part to protect itself from this Administration’s open border policies,” Lankford wrote in the letter, obtained first by the Washington Examiner.