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On the recordApril 27, 2021
We are well over 1 million people in the asylum backlog, and as I mentioned before, we are 3 years before people will actually get to a court hearing.
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Senator Lankford addresses the significant asylum backlog and delays.

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