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Ron Johnson: “The cost to our economies of supporting these illegal…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 06:12

… open border has been a disaster for this country, particularly for people at the lower end of the income scale who are now competing with jobs, with illegal immigrants. And The cost to our economies of supporting these illegal immigrants runs in the billions, tens, if not hundreds of billions of dollars a year. So I don't see how she defends that by President Trump. I would just put her on the defense and try and make her defend that. She won't be able to. (06:12–06:20)

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Asserts that the economic cost of supporting illegal immigrants is in the billions, possibly hundreds of billions, of dollars annually.

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