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Zoe Lofgren: “So if you look at the data, it seems to me that in the year since the parole directive was implemented, ICE has only…”

On the recordDecember 11, 2013
So if you look at the data, it seems to me that in the year since the parole directive was implemented, ICE has only made parole determinations for maybe two-thirds of the people who were granted credible fear after arriving at a port of entry.
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Zoe Lofgren
Democratic · California

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Lofgren discusses the effectiveness of ICE's parole determinations for asylum seekers.

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