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Filemon Vela: “Asylum is not a 'loophole,' as the Trump administration would like the public to believe.”

On the recordMay 21, 2018
Asylum is not a 'loophole,' as the Trump administration would like the public to believe.
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Filemon Vela
Texas

Editor's note · Context

Vela defends the asylum process against administration's framing.

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