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Mike Erickson: “It's now backed up seven, eight years, I'm hearing, to get a…”

Featuring: Mike Erickson, Former Candidate, U.S. House Oregon, District 6

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November 2022 elections_ Congressional District 6

Published | Video Starts at 51:23

They get bused wherever they want. I mean, you just see on tv every day, they come across the border and they're getting asylum. They're saying, here's your court date. It's now backed up seven, eight years, I'm hearing, to get a court date just to go back. Do you think that they get them released in the US here? That is a real problem. They just come over here. They go, the camps on the border. (51:23–51:29)

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Asserts that the court date backlog for asylum seekers is seven to eight years.

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