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Ron Johnson: “Economic migrants, which is not a valid asylum claim.”

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

Sen. Johnson talks Iran, border crisis on State of the Union

Published July 21, 2019 | Video Starts at 08:01

So this is an enormous challenge. You know, what do you do to help create development in Central America so people don't feel that they want to move to America? Basically Economic migrants, which is not a valid asylum claim. So again, we could spend this entire program and barely scratch the surface of all the complexity of this problem. (08:01–08:05)

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