James Lankford will work to pass stronger laws to prevent future administrations from reopening the border.

We need to pass stronger laws that will prevent a future administration from opening the border again.

In a Senate press release responding to a Supreme Court birthright citizenship decision, Lankford called for passing stronger laws to prevent a future administration from opening the border again.

Lankford Statement on Supreme Court Birthright Citizenship Decision
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Lankford's press-release page for the lookback window lists June 23, June 22, June 18, June 10, and June 8 items on foreign assistance policy, housing, Father's Day remarks, secret spending, FEMA aid, and the Chickasaw Nation; no listed item concerns a new border-closure law or related passage effort.

In the June 9-July 8 lookback window, the candidate's official press-release feed did not show a concrete new action toward passing a law to prevent future administrations from reopening the border.

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Press Releases - Senator James Lankford
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The report says Trump signed the Secure America Act on June 10, 2026, providing $38 billion for ICE, $26 billion for CBP, and $5 billion for DHS through September 2029.

A recent immigration-enforcement funding law passed during Lankford's Senate term, but the reported law funds enforcement agencies through 2029 rather than creating a durable statutory bar preventing a future administration from reopening the border.

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Trump signs $70bn immigration act ensuring ICE funding through 2029
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The bill text created a 'border emergency authority' under which DHS could summarily remove and prohibit entry for covered aliens; mandatory activation applied at a 7-day average of 5,000 encounters or 8,500 encounters in one day.

The Border Act of 2024 contained concrete statutory border-closure and summary-removal authority, matching the substance of stronger laws to restrict border reopening, but it also included limits, exceptions, presidential suspension authority, and a three-year sunset.

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Text - S.4361 - Border Act of 2024
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Congress.gov lists S.4361 as introduced on May 16, 2024, with latest action on May 23, 2024: cloture on the motion to proceed was not invoked, 43-50, and the bill status remained Introduced.

The standalone Border Act did not advance to passage, so the central statutory reform remained unresolved despite a serious legislative vehicle.

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Actions - S.4361 - Border Act of 2024
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On February 7, 2024, cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 815 was rejected, 49-50; the roll call lists Lankford (R-OK) as voting Yea.

Lankford voted to advance the earlier border-security package, but the Senate rejected cloture, showing concrete effort without delivery.

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U.S. Senate Roll Call Vote 118th Congress - 2nd Session, Vote 39
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Congress.gov records the February 7, 2024 cloture failure, later Senate passage of an amended H.R.815 on February 13, and final enactment as Public Law 118-50 on April 24, 2024.

The legislative vehicle eventually became law only after later action; the border package that failed on February 7 was not delivered as the durable border-closure law contemplated by the commitment.

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Actions - H.R.815 - 118th Congress
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