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Ron Johnson: “Democrats opened up the border, fled millions of people…”

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

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Senator Ron Johnson Discusses National Guard Deployment and Critiques Trump's Tax Bill

Published | Video Starts at 03:56

But you do want to increase the spending on border and immigration enforcement. Yes, that's the top priority of government is to protect Americans, you know, to defend our border, defend our nation. So unfortunately, the Democrats opened up the border, fled millions of people flooding this country, some of them violent criminals. violent gang members, members of transnational criminal organizations, human drug and sex traffickers. That's what President Trump's had to deal with. That's what Democrats left for us. So again, that takes money. (03:56–04:03)

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Asserts that Democrats opened the border, allowing millions, including violent criminals, to enter the country.

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