, Columnist
The Border Crisis Is Everyone’s Problem. It’s Time to Compromise.
Oklahoma Republican Senator James Lankford should be modeled, not punished for being willing to negotiate.
A model of compromise.
Photographer: Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg
Republican Senator James Lankford is no moderate. The Baptist preacher from Oklahoma has been the lead Senate negotiator in the effort to update the nation’s antiquated immigration laws to deal with the migrant crisis on the southern border.
And yet last weekend, a Trump-aligned faction of the Oklahoma Republican Party got together and voted to censure the conservative lawmaker because he had the audacity to negotiate with Democrats on a potential border deal.