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Asylum-seekers face arbitrary decisions at southern border

Here & Now host Deepa Fernandes speaks with reporter Lillian Perlmutter about what asylum-seekers on the southern border are facing. She says that border patrol agents make ‘arbitrary decisions‘ and apply immigration rules in a scattered fashion, allowing some to get into the country and others not.

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