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On the recordMay 25, 2021
If you could provide, in addition to what I asked initially is how many have been returned to their country of origin versus how many stay of the more than 178,000 came in April.
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John Hoeven
Republican · North Dakota
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Senator Hoeven requests data on border control metrics.

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