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Patrick Leahy: “One question: Is it not under the new procedures, when they ask for asylum, would they not be held in detention until a…”

On the recordMay 1, 1996
One question: Is it not under the new procedures, when they ask for asylum, would they not be held in detention until a preliminary determination has been made about false documents?
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Questioning asylum procedures during a Senate floor debate.

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