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Ron Johnson: “Democrats calling that kids in cages.”

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

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Senator Ron Johnson's Wisconsin Town Hall: Addressing Federal Spending, Medicaid, and Immigration Concerns

Published | Video Starts at 20:07

… of Customs and Border Patrol, how they were handling the migrant surge caused by DACA and Obama so humanely. Fast forward to the Trump administration, the exact same facility. Also Democrats calling that kids in cages. So I have firsthand experience of how concerned ICE and Customs Border Patrol are in terms of detention facilities to keep children and women segregated from males, to keep them as safe as possible. (20:07–20:10)

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Asserts that Democrats referred to the same facilities praised under Obama as "kids in cages" under Trump.

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