A Republican senator who has been working on a bipartisan border deal is lashing out at his GOP colleagues for trying to tank it.

In an interview on Fox News Sunday with anchor Shannon Bream, Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) — the lead Republican negotiator on a bipartisan border deal — sounded off about what he says are misconceptions about the specifics. Specifically, he took on comments from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who claimed the agreement would “normalize” 5,000 migrants per day being allowed to cross the border.

“Right now these internet rumors is all the people are running on,” Lankford said. It would be absolutely absurd for me to agree to 5,000 people a day. This bill focuses on getting us to zero illegal crossings a day. There’s no amnesty. It increases the number of border patrol agents, increases asylum officers. It increases detention beds so we can quickly detain and then deport individuals. It ends catch and release. It focuses on additional deportation flights out. It changes our asylum process so that people get a fast asylum screening at a higher standard, and then get returned back to their home country. This is not about letting 5,000 people in a day. This is the most misunderstood section of this proposal.”

[Call a waahmbulance, dude. I hope someone back home is fixin’ to primary the dog crap out of this guy. ~ Beege]