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Ron Johnson: “We pretty well stopped the flow of unaccompanied children…”

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

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Western Wisconsin Journal: Senate Candidate Ron Johnson

Published | Video Starts at 05:35

You have to secure the border. And you know what's so tragic about what President Biden has done, just throwing open the border, is we were basically there. We pretty well stopped the flow of unaccompanied children, of family units, exploiting our asylum laws. We even cut the adult population, single adult singles that were coming in here illegally, about in half. (05:35–05:42)

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Asserts that the flow of unaccompanied children and family units exploiting asylum laws was significantly reduced.

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