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Ron Johnson: “If you come as an unaccompanied child from Central America…”

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

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Sen. Johnson at HSGAC Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 04:47

… the children that have come here unaccompanied in 2013, 14, 15 and 16, at least the last three years, we're returning less than 4%. And so isn't the reality that If you come as an unaccompanied child from Central America and you get into this country... you're going to stay. get in here, you just walk across the bridge, turn yourself in, and you're apprehended, you're processed and dispersed and they have access to social media. (04:47–05:30)

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Asserts that unaccompanied children from Central America who enter the U.S. are likely to stay.

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