Ron Johnson: “We need a legal immigration system.”

“Now, local law enforcement used to have to shut down meth labs, not anymore, because they've been put out of business by the drug cartels in Mexico because the open border. Secondly, we need workers, we need farm workers, we need factory workers. We need a legal immigration system. And so this flood of illegal immigrants totally set back any, any possibility of passing legal immigration reform so we could bring people in without depressing American wages in a legal way.” (04:07–04:11)

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