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Ron Johnson: “We were briefed and we were told about the detection of the…”

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 02:25

My most recent trip to McAllen, I made a couple in the last couple months with Senator Hassan and Senator Peters. There are a couple things that got my antenna definitely twitching. First of all, We were briefed and we were told about the detection of the number of fraudulent families and we really don't know how large that is. I've seen different things. 13, 25, 33%. We just really don't know. We were told about a three year old boy left in a hot cornfield with just a non working telephone number in his name supplied, … (02:25–02:39)

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Asserts uncertainty about the percentage of fraudulent families detected, with estimates ranging from 13% to 33%.

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