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legal pathways for people, including for workers. i think every economist now is an agreement that the country needs more work but if you don't open those legal pathways, the only route is asylum. the second thing i would say is the executive branch has enough resources to put more asylum officers and immigration judges in play at the border. what we know is that desperate people are going to come to the border no matter what the policy is. so we need to screen them and the truth is that we don't need more enforcement. what experts will tell you now at the border is families are not trying to evade officers what they do is they walk over the border and they sit down and wait for an officer to approach them to apply for asylum. so what we don't need are more enforcement agents. what we need are more asylum officers to engage he didn't that screening quickly if they don't meet the standard there, unfortunately, we sent back to their home country, no matter how economically desperate they may be, if they meet the standard that we let them in and give them a more full hearing. but we can't back