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Ron Johnson: “President Obama actually had a family detention policy, kept…”

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 07:20

Four or five years later, same facility, same conditions, a bigger crisis. But now that facility was being referred to as keeping kids in cages. But you can see what ended up happening here. President Obama actually had a family detention policy, kept the families together. But then a court reinterpreted the Flores decision, interpreted unaccompanied children, the Flores decision, in terms of how you treated children, how you had to hand them over to HHS in a short period of time. (07:20–07:25)

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Asserts that President Obama had a family detention policy that kept families together.

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