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Ron Johnson: “The percentage of those unaccompanied children that were…”

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

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Chairman Johnson speaking at HSGAC Hearing.

Published | Video Starts at 04:29

And even though those memorandum did not apply to people coming into this country at that time, that didn't make any difference. And if you take a look at the bottom line there, that's in yellow, that's showing The percentage of those unaccompanied children that were actually removed from this country... declined from 21.4 and 21.7% in 2009, 2010, to only 2.2% in the last year, 2014. So I think it's. This is certainly evidence, and it's my concern that President Obama's deferred action now in this latest round of memorandum could create that same dynamic, actually … (04:29–04:49)

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Asserts that the removal rate of unaccompanied children declined significantly from 2009 to 2014.

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