But. if we had been on the floor a few years ago. no one could say there was not a problem with the processing of asylums. with the number of applications for asylum. because there was. But. frankly. changes have been made in the system. changes which have corrected the problem. There is not a massive influx of asylum seekers Into America and there is already a reasonable judicial process to determine which applicants are worthy of admission. Only about 20 percent of asylum seekers get in. one of five gets in anyway. through this normal. regular process. The system. frankly. is not broken. and trying to fix it could and would. in my opinion. do serious harm to people who are trying to escape oppression. torture. and even death in their native lands. If you talk. as I have. to people in the asylum community. people who deal with these issues and who deal with these people every day. they will tell you that some of the most heartwrenching cases involve people who are so emotionally scarred by torture that it takes them more than a year to come forward and seek asylum. Under the original bill. aliens seeking asylum would have been required to file for such asylum within 30 days of arriving in the United States. Along with Senators KENNEDY. FEINOOLD.
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