Deep Red State Senator Raked Over The Coals For Undermining Trump On CNN
Published 16 hours ago
on May 7, 2025
By Chris Powell
Senator James Lankford (R-OK) is facing fierce backlash from conservatives after appearing on CNN and appearing to contradict President Donald Trump’s tough stance on illegal immigration and due process for non-citizens.
Lankford, who represents Oklahoma — the state that voted more Republican than any other in the 2024 presidential election — seemed to question the urgency and scale of Trump’s planned deportation agenda. The Oklahoma senator, already under fire for previously co-sponsoring a bipartisan immigration proposal that critics dubbed mass amnesty, is once again in the hot seat with the GOP base.
“What’s been confusing on this is some people see due process like as an American citizen. That’s a right to a jury trial. That’s all those different things. That’s not true for due process for someone who’s not a citizen of the United States,” Lankford said during the interview. “It’s a different process.”
Lankford continued, “It’s often just literally what people call an immigration judge is not a typical federal judge or a state judge. This is someone that’s in the bureaucracy that their task for DHS is that task on it. So they’re a government employee career that’s an immigration judge.”
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