Ron Johnson: “You don't have a country if you don't have secure borders.”

“He was holding an immigration chart that was prepared, I think, by you. How important is it that we really continue to make our borders exactly what that name suggests, secure? Well, You don't have a country if you don't have secure borders. We're a nation of immigrants. I mean, it was every wave of immigrant that came into this country and oftentimes performed jobs that people that already were affluent here wouldn't perform.” (08:13–08:16)

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