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Ron Johnson: “You have a large Somali population that now we are seeing…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 05:56

That's not why they're doing it. They're two totally separate issues. And yet that has been something that the president has spoken to. Well, again, You have a large Somali population that now we are seeing evidence of how much they are defrauding the federal government on a host of government programs. You know, flying $700 million of cash out of the Minneapolis airport. Again, there's some real problems there, but that's separate from the illegal immigrants. (05:56–06:06)

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Asserts that there is evidence of the Somali population defrauding the federal government on various programs.

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