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Ron Johnson: “Prior to Deferred Action on Childhood Admissions, we were at…”

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

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Sen. Johnson's HSGAC Opening Statement

Published | Video Starts at 01:32

The first is just a chart history from 2009 through last fiscal year of the number of unaccompanied children that have come in from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. And you can see that, you know, Prior to Deferred Action on Childhood Admissions, we were at pretty low levels, you know, somewhere around the 3 to 4,000 unaccompanied children level. 2012, we had once 10,000 deferred action on Childhood Admissions was implemented. All of a sudden, we hopped 20,000, then 51,700, back down a little bit in 2015, but we're up there almost 50,000 in 2016. (01:32–01:40)

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Asserts that before Deferred Action on Childhood Admissions, unaccompanied children levels were around 3,000 to 4,000.

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