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Because 
A: 1/2 of our national political cinematic universe wants to be able to use asylum seekers as target practice for their AR15
B: The other 1/2 of our national political cinematic universe thinks they can altruistically appeal to the people who want to use asylum seekers as target practice by temporarily not being altruistic.
I don’t know why asylum seekers are handled at the state level. The federal government should have processing centres, not individual states.