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GOP senator: Drug demand creating ‘unsecured border’

By Mariana Barillas
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GOP senator: Drug demand creating ‘unsecured border’

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., charged Tuesday that “lax” U.S. border security is contributing to the domestic heroin epidemic.

“When I’ve looked at the root cause of our unsecured border, the primary root cause is our insatiable demand for drugs,” Johnson said at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on the federal response to U.S. drug demand.

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