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Ron Johnson: “We pretty well had this problem solved before COVID hit.”

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

Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20

Published May 20, 2021 | Video Starts at 09:46

We pretty well stopped the flow and reduced dramatically the flow of unaccompanied children and family members coming to the border. And We pretty well had this problem solved before COVID hit. throw on Covid in the invocation of Title 42. And we really had this problem solved until the presidential debates. (09:46–09:50)

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Asserts that the immigration problem was nearly solved before COVID-19.

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“In 2006, Congress passed something called the Secure Fence act of 2006. What that piece of legislation did is it authorized 700 miles of…”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 00:22-00:41
“In the end, only 36 miles of actual double layer fencing was constructed.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 00:42-00:49
“In 2014, more than 51,000 unaccompanied children flooded our border.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 05:56-06:03
“The last two months, there have been almost, on an average basis daily, almost 6,000 people per day being apprehended at the border.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 10:50-11:03
“A child was sold for $84.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 13:42-13:45
“President Trump wanted to build 800 miles [of wall]. He built 450.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 17:59-18:00
“250 miles of that wall has already been contracted for. It will be paid for whether it is built or not.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 17:59-18:08
“Another 613 miles consisting of about 299 miles of vehicle fencing. In other words, people could just walk right through it.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 00:49-00:58
“Another 314 miles of single layer pedestrian barrier fencing was actually built.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 00:58-01:05
“The Secure Fence act is it passed overwhelmingly in this chamber by a vote of 80 to 19.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 01:19-01:27
“It also passed the House in a pretty overwhelming margin as well, 283 to 138.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 01:33-01:40
“In total, the total count In Congress was 363 votes to build a fence and secure the border versus 157 people that apparently didn't have an…”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 01:43-01:54
“He [Donald Trump] had no cooperation, either by Congress or the courts, of enforcing our laws and securing our borders.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 02:47-09:01
“In June of 2012, the Obama administration issued the DACA memorandum.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 05:07-05:13
“President Obama rightly declared that a humanitarian crisis.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 06:02-06:07
“President Obama actually had a family detention policy, kept the families together.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 07:20-07:25
“A court reinterpreted the Flores decision, interpreted unaccompanied children, the Flores decision, in terms of how you treated children.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 07:26-07:35
“We know that a very high percentage of asylum seekers here do not qualify for asylum.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 08:13-08:20
“Donald Trump was elected president, he was dedicated to securing the border.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 08:40-08:44
“President Trump, again with no help from Congress, no help from the courts, fixed the problem.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 09:13-09:22
“President Biden dismantled the migrant protection program.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 10:29-10:34
“This crisis is also man made. It's a man made crisis by President Biden's policies.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 11:04-11:13
“President Biden's policies created this crisis and they are facilitating the multi-billion dollar business model of probably some of the…”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 11:07-11:13
“It was President Obama's dismantling of President Trump's successful policies that sparked and was the catalyst for the renewed crisis.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 11:38-11:46
“Human traffickers sell children to adults so they can exploit our asylum laws by posing as a family unit.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 13:03-13:10
“Children are recycled, that they're sent back over the border to be used by another adult.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 13:46-13:52
“Human traffickers throw children out of rafts when they're interdicted by law enforcement.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 14:08-14:15
“Migrant girls are given birth control because they know that such a large percentage will be raped during the dangerous journey.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 14:51-15:05
“Nobody crosses into America without either paying the human traffickers or being indebted to them.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 15:25-15:33
“President Trump had stopped the flow largely of unaccompanied children, of family units.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 17:19-17:25
“American taxpayer, you need to understand this. You will be on the hook for a couple billion dollars.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 18:11-18:19
“Securing the border has become a partisan issue when it was not a partisan issue in 2006.”
Johnson Floor Speech on the Border Crisis 5/20 | Uploaded May 20, 2021 | 18:38-18:46