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Ron Johnson: “Our primary concern is our very southern poor, poor Southern…”

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

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Sen. Johnson on the Situation Room

Published | Video Starts at 09:12

Well, it's certainly one of the reasons we held a hearing on Prime Minister Trudeau's acceptance, under very rushed circumstances of more refugees from Syria for exactly that same reason. But our primary, Our primary concern is our very southern poor, poor Southern border. President Trump described these latest ICE raids in his word. He called it a crackdown, saying today, he said today at the news conference, he said, we will get the bad ones. (09:12–09:17)

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Asserts that the primary concern for security is the U.S. southern border.

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