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Push to end Obama’s catch and release program for illegal youths

By Paul Bedard
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Push to end Obama’s catch and release program for illegal youths

A Senate chairman and ally of President Trump’s war on illegal immigration is pushing to end former President Obama’s catch and release of “unaccompanied children,” claiming most aren’t kids and some are vicious criminals like the two charged in the brutal rape of a 14-year-old Maryland girl in school.

Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said that half of the “children” allowed into the United States, then placed around the country, are older teens.

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