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Report: US turning away asylum-seekers at border is flawed

by Elliot Spagat
| October 31, 2020 12:03 AM

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The head of the Department of Homeland Security ordered border agents to stop asylum-seekers from stepping on U.S. soil at official crossings with Mexico in 2018, undercutting public statements at the time that they were welcome to do so, according to a government watchdog report published Friday.

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