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Ken Buck: “If the law changed, we could arrange, in the situation where they are not victims of human smuggling or seeking asylum…”

On the recordMarch 22, 2016
If the law changed, we could arrange, in the situation where they are not victims of human smuggling or seeking asylum, we could arrange for those individuals to be returned to those countries without going through the 5- to 7-year hearing process that we now have.
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Ken Buck
Republican · Colorado

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Buck discusses potential legal changes for faster deportation processes.

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