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Ron Johnson: “It's down to about 3,500 [people per day crossing the…”

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

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Sen. Johnson Discusses Border Crisis on Fox News @ Night

Published | Video Starts at 00:48

But it certainly is understandable when McAleenan and CBP and ICE are dealing with this overwhelming problem of primarily people coming in as family units. In May alone, it's about 4,600 people per day coming through the border. It's down to about 3,500 [people per day crossing the border]. That's a caravan a day that we're having to process and basically we're dispersing them all across the country. And we're highly concerned that a pretty high percentage of those families units are fraudulent families where you have an adult. (00:48–00:53)

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