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Sep 2021
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The Humanitarian Crisis at the Border

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The Biden administration is dealing with the surge of migrants at the border seeking asylum and the horrifying treatment from Border Patrol agents. CNN Political Director David Chalian discusses why both Republicans and Democrats are critical of how the administration has handled things so far.  A Trump-era law still in place forces DHS to turn people away in Del Rio, Texas.

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