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Ron Johnson: “145,000 unaccounted children and people coming in as…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 02:14

Now, this is not a manufactured crisis, Chuck. 120,000 unaccompanied children family units came in to this country in 2014. And President Obama called that a humanitarian Crisis last year. 145,000 unaccounted children and people coming in as families in the first four months of this fiscal year. It's already 120,000 people. We're at 2014 level, 2014 levels, just in the first four months of this, this year. So it's a problem. (02:14–02:22)

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