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Mark Pocan: “It takes, on average, two and three quarter years for your…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Mark Pocan town hall in Green Bay

Published | Video Starts at 50:18

But the problem is not everyone really is here for asylum, but they all, it's the only way you can kind of get in to the country for whatever reason that's mixed up in the law right now. So It takes, on average, two and three quarter years for your [asylum] case to be heard. part of that bill, that bipartisan bill, would have shrunk that by hiring people that Republicans won't put money to hire to work the courts there to three months. (50:18–50:25)

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Asserts the average time for an asylum case to be heard is nearly three years.

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