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Seeking Asylum in the U.S.
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Enlarge this image AP Photo/Jaques Langevin AP Photo/Jaques Langevin Today on the show, the story of how the U.S. asylum system was forged in response to moments of crisis, and where it left gaps: from Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust, to Cuban and Haitian asylum seekers during the Cold War, to the precarious system of today. Maria Cristina Garcia, Professor of History at Cornell University studying immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers