The US Braces For a Post-Covid Immigration Surge
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The Uneven Resources of the Border Enforcement Mission
The systems that we have at the Southwest Border have been inadequate for these numbers. What we've done in funding terms as a post 9-11 phenomenon really is funded heavily. We do not have asylum officers at the numbers that we need to screen people that are applying for asylum and decide the cases. So this is a cross-government system and it's unevenly resourced.
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