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Mike Johnson: “We are going to deport dangerous criminal illegal aliens…”

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

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Speaker Johnson and GOP leaders hold press conference on day 42 of the DHS shutdown.

Published | Video Starts at 00:35

Let me just be completely unequivocal and put this out here in the open and in the beginning here to make clear the Republicans are not going to be any part of any effort to reopen our borders or to stop immigration enforcement. We are going to deport dangerous criminal illegal aliens because it is a basic function of the government. The Democrats fundamentally disagree. The Senate Democrats have hoisted upon this appropriations process their radical crazy agenda. We call it crazy because that's what it is. (00:35–00:43)

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Asserts that deporting dangerous criminal illegal aliens is a basic government function.

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