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Now utterly dysfunctional. already clogged and understaffed, donald trump deliberately jammed it up even more to the point that routine business visa applications from countries like india, can take months. students cannot enter the united states even after getting scholarships. and work visa applications now rest on the chance of applicants winning a lottery. the biden administration is going into this midterm with a strong hand. it could be undone by this one issue. it's found an intelligence way to speed up the consideration of asylum requests. there are more than 670,000 people living in a...

The system in order to bypass the normal immigration process. and that process in america is now utterly dysfunctional. already clogged and understaffed, donald trump deliberately jammed it up even more to the point that routine business visa applications from countries like india, can take months. students cannot enter the united states even after getting scholarships. and work visa applications now rest on the chance of applicants winning a lottery, lit realty. lit rattly. the biden administration is going into this midterm with a strong hand. it could be undone by this one issue. it's found...

Here. >> help us to grow the industry economist. >> reporter: dozens of asylum seekers were sent on flights to martha's vineyard lured with the promise of a job. while ron desantis arranged the flights, business owners in his own state are struggling to find anyone to fill their open jobs. >> we know that we have a massive labor shortage in florida. >> reporter: there are at least 670,000 asylum seekers in the u.s. awaiting their cases to be heard. the average wait time, four and a half years. in the meantime, they can apply to legally work, a process that can take several months. he believes ...

Million jobs to fill. almost double the number of unemployed americans looking for work. it is putting a new spotlight on legal foreign workers. as some republicans states are moving asylum-seekers who by the way are here legally within that process away from places where they might be able to help the labor shortage. vanessa yurkevich has more on this. >> it didn't make any sense. >> why are they sending them there when we need people here. >> help us to help the economy grow. >> reporter: dozens asylum-seekers were sent from texas to martha's vineyard, lured with the promise of a job while r...

Some states barely hitting a third of the population. >> short of the president's goal of 70%. >> a year ago, the covid icu at lexington was pushed to the brink, now. it is feeling like deja vu. >> more daily covid cases than last summer's peak. >> the plan is for every adult to get a booster, eight months after your second shot. >> a moving new memorial, reminding us of the devastation of the pandemic. 670,000 white flags are planted along the national mall. each one, a life lost to the coronavirus. >> thursday by the fda, late today, booster shots for adults fully vaccinated with moderna and...