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Ron Johnson: “Flying $700 million of cash out of the Minneapolis airport.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 06:07

Well, again, you have a large Somali population that now we are seeing evidence of how much they are defrauding the federal government on a host of government programs. You know, Flying $700 million of cash out of the Minneapolis airport. Again, there's some real problems there, but that's separate from the illegal immigrants. And quite honestly, the sanctuary cities, sanctuary states like Minneapolis and Minnesota, where you don't have local officials working with ICE to peacefully turn over people they've detained that have committed crimes. (06:07–06:12)

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Asserts that $700 million in cash was flown out of the Minneapolis airport.

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