Sen Rick Scott says Senate border deal won't fix migrant crisis: 'Suicide mission'

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., is turning up the heat on his opposition to the emerging border deal that officials expect as soon as next week. 

"James Lankford is smart, hardworking, and knows the issue — he's on a suicide mission," Scott told Fox News Digital. "So it's real simple — if we cannot force Biden to secure the border, we need to just shut the border down." 

"If we go back home, the voters are not saying ‘hey, we want to secure border next year,’ — they're saying, ‘we want to secure borders today.’ So, I'm not going to support something that doesn't do it," he said. 

Scott is part of a growing group of Senate Republicans who have voiced opposition to the purported border deal — with only one portion relating to asylum being worked out in the appropriations committee — as details of the deal were leaked last week.