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Season 2 Episode 22 | 6m 38s
| Video has closed captioning.
As large numbers of migrants from Central America have fled to the U.S. in recent years, there’s been a lot of talk about the asylum process and how it works in the U.S.
Asylum grants are just a tiny part of America’s vast and complicated immigration system, but the
process is widely misunderstood and mischaracterized, even by the government leaders responsible for managing it.
