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Mike Johnson: “If you instituted, reinstituted the remain in Mexico policy…”

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 01:46

And that's what policy choices do you think need to be changed? Well, it's actually pretty simple. I mean, the president has the existing authority under federal law to stem the flow here. I mean, If you instituted, reinstituted the remain in Mexico policy, for example, it was estimated by the people who were in charge here that that would stem the flow by maybe 70%. I mean, that's a simple measure. An executive order that the White House could undertake. On his first day in office, President Biden came in and issued executive orders that began this chaos. (01:46–01:57)

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