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Dick Durbin: “There's this notion, catch and release, that somehow these people are processed at the border, given a hearing date…”

On the recordJune 7, 2021
There's this notion, catch and release, that somehow these people are processed at the border, given a hearing date, turned loose in the United States and start swimming in this vast ocean of this country and are never reported from again. Catch and release. It turns out that's just plain false. It's not true.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin refutes the myth of 'catch and release' in immigration processing.

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