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Kirsten Gillibrand: “A lot of people are showing up on the border claiming…”

Featuring: Kirsten Gillibrand, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

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Interview with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand on Immigration, UFOs, and New York State Highlights

Published | Video Starts at 00:52

And so there's been a lot of challenges. One of the things that we worked on in Washington was to fix the system, because the system is badly broken. A lot of people are showing up on the border claiming asylum, but they don't qualify. But that hearing to assess whether they qualify is happening not in a few months, but in a few years. (00:52–00:56)

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Asserts that many asylum seekers at the border do not qualify for asylum.

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