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Ron Johnson: “Secretary Johnson said it could be 90,000 [unaccompanied…”

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

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Senator Johnson at the Foreign Relations Committee

Published | Video Starts at 11:54

Okay, let me just stop you there. Let me define what I'm. Achievable gold on unaccompanied children. We have this humanitarian crisis on the border. 57,000 currently in this fiscal year. Secretary Johnson said it could be 90,000 [unaccompanied children] by the end of this fiscal year. So by September 30, over 100,000 by 2015. So again, what I'm talking about is what is the achievable goal to solve the problem of unaccompanied children. So let's. And again, keep it brief, because I think this can be described pretty briefly. (11:54–12:03)

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Asserts projected numbers of unaccompanied children at the border by the end of the fiscal year and by 2015.

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