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Ron Johnson: “They come into this country with 30 or $40,000 debt owed to…”

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

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Chairman Johnson discusses border crisis at 6/26 hearing

Published | Video Starts at 01:58

More recent news stories after the Robert Kraft massage parlor scandal, New York Times wrote a really good investigative story just laying out the reality of these massage parlors and often Asian women that had been smuggled trafficking in this nation. They come into this country with 30 or $40,000 debt owed to their human traffickers and of course they paid off through prostitution. Disgusting reality, but that's the reality. My most recent trip to McAllen, I made a couple in the last couple months with Senator Hassan and Senator Peters. (01:58–02:06)

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