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We are generous. a million people come to this country after waiting a decade on a green card. but we have to have rules and a process on how they come in and when they come in. thats involves telling some people they cant come in. thats why you have a border. they seem to be promoting things that are encouraging people to come here illegally. we have a problem at the border thats going to get worse. the government knows there are hundreds of thousands of people poised to enter the country this ...

We are generous. a million people come to this country after waiting a decade on a green card. but we have to have rules and a process on how they come in and when they come in. thats involves telling some people they cant come in. thats why you have a border. they seem to be promoting things that are encouraging people to come here illegally. we have a problem at the border thats going to get worse. the government knows there are hundreds of thousands of people poised to enter the country this ...

We are generous. a million people come to this country after waiting a decade on a green card. but we have to have rules and a process on how they come in and when they come in. thats involves telling some people they cant come in. thats why you have a border. they seem to be promoting things that are encouraging people to come here illegally. we have a problem at the border thats going to get worse. the government knows there are hundreds of thousands of people poised to enter the country this ...

Albania, iraq and syria. now, of course, each persons story is different. some may travel for economic reasons, but the percentage of asylum request that are granted by the uk suggest that these are countries where you have good reason to leave for your safety, as my colleague lewis goodall heard. i come from iran, kurdistan area. and why did you leave? the politicians, you know. they said to me, you must leave this country or we will kill you. these are the personal stories at the heart of this...

The measures to try and disrupt the people smuggling operations that are often behind these journeys across the channel. the second thing is arguably proving more controversial at the moment is to treat people and their asylum requests differently according to how they make those asylum request was up so someone comes the boat, they will not have precisely the same experiences someone who has applied for asylum via what is called a recognised channel. that is being criticised by some lawyers and...

Course it is the people smugglers who are the criminals, and they are exploiting people, but the risk the people are clearly willing to take, what does that tell us about the way the asylum system works or as some charities would say does not work with me what about those charities who say can we not find a way of allowing people to put in an asylum request without actually being on these shores because people are trying to get to the shores and that is why west people are taking this small boat...

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Enforce the laws of the land and they are letting in this people -- they are letting people in this country illegally, then they ate in about the law by giving them transportation to any state i guess that they want to go to. now if you make a claim of amnesty, now that we are going to fly in your family when you have been in this country illegally and we havent been able to sort through if that asylum request is valid? what is washington to do when an administration does not uphold the laws of ...

And too bad, that they want to go to. now if you make a claim of amnesty we will fly you and your family to be with you when you enter the country illegally, and we havent been able to sort through if that asylum request is valid. what is washington to do when an administration does not uphold the laws of the land? >> well we need to push back on it. over the last three months weve apprehended about 6,000 people per day, each and every day for the last three months. we have probably about a thou...