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Ron Johnson: “We've seen the results of deferred action in the past... We…”

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

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Chairman Johnson speaking at HSGAC Hearing.

Published | Video Starts at 03:36

And again, I think there's going to be some very thoughtful testimony and I'm looking forward to it. Here's my main concern. If we can put up a chart that we've prepared here. We've seen the results of deferred action in the past... We had a flooding of unaccompanied children to our border, creating that humanitarian crisis. historically, but the numbers were actually declining until basically 2012, when President Obama issued the first series or his agencies, his members of his administration, issued memos on deferred action on childhood admissions. (03:36–04:16)

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Asserts that past deferred action policies led to an increase in unaccompanied children at the border.

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