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Mike Johnson: “Border Patrol needs the necessary resources to do its job…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview

Published | Video Starts at 10:40

And throwing more money at the broken system will not do that all. It will. But you're not opposing funding. That's what I'm trying to. No, but we. No, we understand that Border Patrol needs the necessary resources to do its job, but they can't do the job that they're hired to do unless you change the policy here. And that's why we're so insistent on that being done. And again, the application and enforcement of existing federal law will do the trick. We don't even need new law. (10:40–10:50)

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Asserts that policy changes are necessary for Border Patrol to effectively do its job.

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