James Lankford: “Congress needs to change the definition of asylum.”

“So President Biden would just use the same authorities President Obama used. We'd have a very different border right now. At the same time, Congress needs to change the definition of asylum. We need to take out a lot of the appeals process. We need to speed up the decision making process. Those are only things that can be done in law.” (02:43–02:46)

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