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Al Franken, Sen. Chris Murphy & Jeff Stein

Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

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Is There a Wall With Spikes?

Republicans want to spend money on the southern border, but they don't really want to spend it on processing and having staffing there right. So long as we have an asylum process, everybody who being persecuted or has a fear for their life from the country that they're coming from, has a right to apply for asylum in the U.S., no matter if there's a wall or not. And so unless Republicans are proposing to end our asylum law, then you're still going to have these huge numbers presenting themselves at the border.

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