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Biden taps groups to help pick asylum-seekers to come to US

by Julie WatsonElliot Spagat
| June 7, 2021 12:09 AM

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration has quietly tasked six humanitarian groups with recommending which migrants should be allowed into the United States to pursue asylum as it faces mounting pressure to lift public health rules that have barred people from seeking protection.

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