“They're in the process of designing a new system for asylum, and in their new system for asylum, it is an online sign-up for asylum that you could sign up for asylum from anywhere in the world,” Lankford said during a news conference with a group of Republican senators who visited the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas on Friday. “And then not only cross the border illegally and request asylum and be able to come right in, but you could literally come to any airport in America and make the same claim coming from anywhere in the world.
“It is clear this administration not only doesn't want to stop illegal immigration, they're trying to accelerate this. They're not working to stop it. They're working to make it more efficient.”