Opinion: How internet rumors, Republican in-fighting and an election year are threatening a bipartisan border bill
One of the nation’s leading Republican voices, Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford, seems to be turning into a cynic before our eyes. Described by Politico as “an even-keeled conservative,” he was appointed by minority leader Mitch McConnell as the lead Republican negotiator in talks with Democrats over an immigration bill that would take a step toward solving the mess at the southern border. Fourteen years ago, Utah’s political, business, academic and religious leaders joined in writing the “Utah Compact on Immigration,” which the Deseret News correctly sa...