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Ron Johnson: “Canada's looking at... increasing that by a factor of…”

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

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Sen. Johnson at HSGAC

Published | Video Starts at 04:04

That increases the number of refugees in this country by 21%, which puts a potential management strain and possibly some short circuiting or taking shortcuts within that process. Canada's looking at... increasing that by a factor of basically double, going from 25 to 50 to potentially 75,000 in one particular year. that could put enormous strains. Mr. Maman, by the way, did I pronounce that properly? Mammon, like salmon. Oh, salmon, okay, Mammon. (04:04–04:19)

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Asserts that Canada is considering increasing refugee intake from 25,000 to potentially 75,000 in one year.

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