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Mike Johnson: “The administration has lost track of more than 80,000…”

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

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Speaker Mike Johnson's Maiden Floor Speech

Published | Video Starts at 10:35

In February 2021, the administration stopped applying Title 42 expulsions to children. And incentivized by doing that, incentivized families to send unaccompanied children through Mexico under the watch of who? Cartels and traffickers. Since then, The administration has lost track of more than 80,000 unaccompanied children somewhere in the US. in the US we were down there at Eagle Pass, at the Del Rio sector. We went through one of these processing centers, and what we saw down there was heartbreaking. (10:35–10:45)

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Asserts that the administration has lost track of over 80,000 unaccompanied children in the U.S.

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