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Ron Johnson: “Human traffickers sell children to adults so they can…”

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

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Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20

Published | Video Starts at 13:03

I'm sure there was time constraints, but in a second round of questions, this is what I wanted to ask Secretary Mayorkas. I wanted to ask him whether he was aware that Human traffickers sell children to adults so they can exploit our asylum laws by posing as a family unit. Understand these policies that are being instituted to be more humane do the exact opposite. It leads to all kinds of human depredations, all kinds of inhumanity. I knew it full well. (13:03–13:10)

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