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Ron Johnson: “President Obama is failing to enforce immigration laws.”

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

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Senator Johnson on C-SPAN's Washington Journal

Published | Video Starts at 08:14

… a president could, for example, come in and, you know, basically cut everybody's taxes in half. It harms nobody. Now, I don't think anybody believes that the President has that … President Obama is failing to enforce immigration laws. … Turley, a law professor here in Washington, gave powerful testimony to the House Judiciary Committee, basically saying that President Obama has crossed the line, that we are at a constitutional crisis and we have to have judicial review of this unilateral governance by this president. (08:14–08:28)

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Asserts that President Obama is not enforcing immigration laws.

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