The folks that we're serving, sir, are trying very hard to navigate that legal process. It's often a seven year wait for a court date when they arrive to this country. So part of it is the backlogged administrative needs. Every month under President Biden, at least the statistics, I have 30 to 40,000 people, what are called gotaways, get came across the southern border, didn't ask for asylum, didn't ask for anything. (03:43–03:48)
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