Hundreds of thousands of migrants were simply let into the United States in fiscal year 2019 without having to claim asylum. The revelation came on Wednesday during a Senate hearing on the "Unprecedented Migration at the U.S. Southern Border: The Year in Review."
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson asked senior officials from the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department why, given that 473,682 individuals illegally entered the United States as family units, only 105,000 credible-fear referrals had been made.
