HARLAN, Iowa (KMTV) — Senator Grassley visited Shelby County on Thursday morning, stopping by the Harlan Community Library to talk to constituents.
- Questions ranged from the war in Ukraine, to the national debt, and immigration.
- Grassley spoke to high school students who were in attendance about the government.
- I asked him about the changes to asylum laws that were in an immigration reform bill that failed in February. He said he’d like to see reforms to laws for those seeking asylum, something that was part of the failed bill.“It wasn’t just updating the asylum laws, because that was probably one of things that the president really didn’t want, it was in the bill,” said Grassley. “But all these other bad things that were in the bill; why would you give the president the authority to waive a new piece of legislation, when he wasn’t enforcing existing law?”
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