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Ron Johnson: “President Trump had pretty well shut down the flow of…”

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

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Real America Season 2, Episode 12: Senator Ron Johnson

Published | Video Starts at 15:06

DHS took that and that kind of morphed into return to Mexico. Okay. So I mean I'll claim some credit for helping out. That was a consequence. But President Trump had pretty well shut down the flow of unaccompanied children and family family units exploiting our very generous credible fear standard for asylum. Okay. He shut it down. And we were working with Jared on what I thought was a really good immigration bill. (15:06–15:16)

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Asserts that Trump effectively reduced the flow of unaccompanied children and families exploiting asylum standards.

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