Ron Johnson: “We can't have the incentive in terms of welfare payments…”

“I'm not sure this bill does that. My point is just throwing resources at the border too think a kind of mindless approach to it as well. Plus We can't have the incentive in terms of welfare payments, benefits to people come here and that's part of the problem. Problem. This bill doesn't end a lot of that well and Senator, that's where I agree. This, this panacea of 700 miles more fencing and 20,000 more agents and that's it, that's two checks on the, on the checklist and now we're done.” (03:25–03:32)

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