It's pretty obvious that the intent of the government is to detain more and more people and to expedite their removal.
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They're not from a Communist country, and so folks tend to assume they're just economic refugees. They don't have the kind of political clout that a lot of other groups have. And frankly, I think the color of their skin has a lot to do with it.
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We are needlessly putting innocent lives at risk. Our Coast Guard is being put in the untenable position of endangering lives in order to keep people from reaching our shores.
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We've closed over 47,000 cases since we opened our doors in early 1996, and it's never been my understanding that's why a family came here. They come here to escape political persecution, or to make a better life for themselves -- not to have a U.S.-born-citizen child who can apply for the parent to become a citizen 21 years later.
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