Immigration, Spying Dominate Lankford Town Hall Discussion
Concerns about spying, illegal immigrants voiced in meeting with Oklahoma congressman
By Michael McNutt
Concerns about illegal spying by a federal government that seems unable to do anything about illegal immigration frustrated many in a feisty crowd of more than 450 people who met Tuesday evening with U.S. Rep. James Lankford.
Dax Ewbank, of Oklahoma City, told Lankford he is concerned that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the FBI are using Americans’ phone and Internet data that the National Security Agency has been collecting.
“It needs to end now,” he said, as many in the group applauded during a town hall meeting at the Rockwell campus of the Francis Tuttle Technology Center, 12777 N Rockwell Ave.
“The government is collecting information, pre-emptive of a crime, and then leaking it to law enforcement,” he said.