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Ron Johnson: “A court reinterpreted the Flores decision, interpreted…”

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

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Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20

Published | Video Starts at 07:26

But now that facility was being referred to as keeping kids in cages. But you can see what ended up happening here. President Obama actually had a family detention policy, kept the families together. But then A court reinterpreted the Flores decision, interpreted unaccompanied children, the Flores decision, in terms of how you treated children. how you had to hand them over to HHS in a short period of time. Also, they applied that to accompany children. So now the tough decision had to be made. (07:26–07:35)

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Asserts that a court reinterpreted the Flores decision regarding the treatment of unaccompanied children.

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