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With meaningful legislation to address the loopholes in the immigration system and they have refused to do so, refused to protect our borders and safeguard this country. i dont have a good answer for that, i just dont understand it for what i can tell you is mexico, the micro protection protocol right now, over 37,000 individuals are waiting in mexico as they go through asylum process. if that is 37,000 people that would be in our holding facilities into the interior united states. thats another...

People in the process? it is not if they are entering illegally their entering illegally under the asylum process. eric: alex, your prediction? >> i think they will hard time getting this through. there may be separate cases brought in separate jurisdictions which may come down to philly. texas versus a california litigation. ultimately, change will not happen anytime soon.eric: david, your prediction? >> i think based on the fact that have strict requirements now which is different than the oth...

The average american doesnt think, when they think about immigrants creating crimes, theyre not entirely sure it was the first crime, which is articulated in 1325, thats cross been unlawfully. you think that should be eliminated, it should not be a crime to cross into the country unlawfully? >> thats right. before this law was passed in the 1920s, but from the 1920s until about 2004, it was actually rarely enforced as a crime. it was enforced -- it was still illegal. there were still consequence...

This administration, that was the crime in many cases. the average american doesnt think, when they think about immigrants creating crimes, theyre not entirely sure it was the first crime, which is articulated in 1325, thats cross been unlawfully. you think that should be eliminated, it should not be a crime to cross into the country unlawfully? >> thats right. before this law was passed in the 1920s, but from the 1920s until about 2004, it was actually rarely enforced as a crime. it was enforce...

Trump policies are having on the u.s. southern border. this started when the president leaned on mexico, threatened tariffs. there are 11,000 national guardsman along that border with guatemala. the other half of the city are the thousands of people at the border city who have been deported or who are waiting in mexico to start that asylum process. we spoke to a couple of young men. take a listen. >> what do you think of everything thats happening with president trump and all of this? >> you kno...

Are thrown out because they give countering advice. he has a dangerous team in the white house, led by mr. miller, who doesnt see immigrants in any other way -- apparently he has lost his way and has never been to the statue of liberty. he has never known those of us who had our relatives if you will come from other places and weve had now the privilege of being public servants. she was right. guatemala is not prepared to handle those, to take the asylum process, and allow individuals to have to...

Facilities that ive been to seeing children sleeping on pavement, people being put in cages, nursing mothers, small children. this is not necessary. we have seen using the civil system piloted programs that have 100% compliance with the civil courts where people are evaluated. if they have no reason to be here, they are returned. if they are, like the people i met who were survivors of sexual assault, who we wouldnt even let come and present for asylum. we are butchering our values and making ou...

If they are, like the people i met in juarez who were survivors of sexual assault, who we wouldnt even let come and present for asylum. we are butchering our values and making ourselves less safe. >> senator, thank you very much. mr. vice president, your response? >> i agree with you senator. the asylum process is a real process and this president is ruining it. it has nothing to do with that section of the law. thats what he is doing, number one. number two, we should in fact and we have propos...

Border, to claim asylum in the united states, they must have sought asylum in a country they passed through. obviously, this wouldnt apply to people from mexico. but from countries beyond mexico, it would apply. and they have to demonstrate that they applied at either the first mace they came to or one of the places through which they came and were rejected before they can enter the american asylum process. and the key here is that asylum on an international basis is about safety. steve: yes. >>...

Published a proposal for the legal immigration, to make that, to improve that. >> were doing a lot of things to improve the efficiency of the legal processes whether its worker visas, whether its naturalization. and in the last fiscal year, this administration naturalized over three-quarters of a million people, more people than the previous four or five years befores it s and were going to come in around those numbers again -- steve: by the way, our audience will know, im going to be one of the...