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Glenn Grothman: Under current law, as I understand it, if somebody here and says--asks for asylum--and everybody I know feels that the…

On the recordJuly 9, 2019
Under current law, as I understand it, if somebody here and says--asks for asylum--and everybody I know feels that the vast majority of these claims are unnecessary.
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Glenn Grothman
Republican · Wisconsin

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Grothman expresses skepticism about the validity of asylum claims.

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