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Ron Johnson: “Five people were indicted in late May in a Georgia based…”

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

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Chairman Johnson discusses border crisis at 6/26 hearing

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Once we got back from that trip, story broke in Wisconsin. I'm going to read you some excerpts from a story that ran the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on June 20. Five people were indicted in late May in a Georgia based human trafficking scheme that federal authorities say illegally brought dozens of Mexican workers to work on Wisconsin farms. The defendants, through two companies they operated, received U.S. department of labor approval to bring the Mexican nationals to the US to work on Georgia farms through a program that … (05:26–05:36)

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Asserts that five people were indicted for a scheme illegally bringing Mexican workers to Wisconsin farms.

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