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Border illegally. >> mike: nancy pelosi is not a fan. the asylum was clear edification of american humanitarian -- humanitarianism. how do you respond and are there exceptions to the role? >> there are exceptions to the role relating to trafficking primarily at the last 12 years in particular have put a keen focus on interdicting human trafficking and curing for the victims. this rule counts for it entirely but what it also does is it will stop people who are fraudulently, frankly, clogging the ...

To see congress address these asylum loopholes. they continue to fail to do so except senator graham has been working on something. the house put out that your calendar with nothing on it. no intention of addressing the problem. the president has instructed us to do -- take the steps within our legal authority to start to dissuade fraudulent applicants in our asylum system. as i said were swamped over 300,000 case backlog in asylum and over 800,000 case immigration case backlog in the department...

Commenting on some of the splits in the democratic caucus in the house, presumably. but beyond that, im staying focused on trying to fix our asylum system. we have a 300,000-plus case backlog and a crisis at the border. and we have a role to play in fixes those things. >> of course. i guess i just need to ask you when he says to these u.s. congress women all u.s. citizens, why dont that go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. do you see that as rac...

Are the problem here that congress refuses to fix and that takes statutory fixes. we cant just issue memos, like president obama did. courts strike those down when president trump does it. and they defend the memos of president obama, even when they were illegal even acknowledged to be by the president, meaning president obama himself, like daca. so we dont have these options. congress has to fix these loopholes and that means closing them. i run the asylum system. we have over 300,000 case back...

Its those incentives that are the problem here that congress refuses to fix. it takes statutory fixes. we cant just have memos like present obama did. he struck those done when trump does it. they defend most of president obama even when they were illegally acknowledged to be by the president, obama himself. we dont have those options, congress has to fix these loopholes and that means closing men. i run the asylum system, we have over 300,000 case backlog if we continue to be rushed at the bord...

Immigration, i can ask you a couple of questions that would probably help get to an immigration agreement. the backlog of pending cases in immigration courts nationwide have been growing exponentially since 2008 from fewer than 200,000 cases in 2008 to more than 800,000. border patrol is currently apprehending almost 50,000 aliens each month, a certain percentage that ends up in that same pending case backlog. in the face of this backlog, what steps is doj taking to ensure that its immigration j...

Immigration, i can ask you a couple of questions that would probably help get to an immigration agreement. the backlog of pending cases in immigration courts nationwide have been growing exponentially since 2008 from fewer than 200,000 cases in 2008 to more than 800,000. and border patrol is currently apprehending almost 50,000 aliens each month. a certain percentage of which ends up in the pending case backlog. in the face of the backlog, what steps is d.o.j. to make sure its immigration judges...

Now, there is a 60,000 case backlog in the immigration court which we wont get to. we only have in our budget to deport 400,000 so how does that. address 11,000 people? >> i can tell you this, this is the dirty little secret the democrats do. they dont find enough bedsan or dollars to deport people, and if donald trump wants $5 billion for the wall, add another $5 billion to deport all the people in the criminal element. hector, what do you folks go through when you have somebody whos coming acr...

Lets start with everybody and then we will work backward. >> thats where we are working now, there is a 60,000 case backlog in the immigration court which we wont get to. we only have in our budget to deport 400,000 so how does that address 11,000 people? >> i can tell you this, this is the dirty little secret the democrats do. they dont find enough beds or dollars to deport people, and if donald trump wants $5 billion for the wall, add another $5 billion to deport all the people in the criminal...

That ultimately was made that they could not be held on to or detained for more than 20 days. whether they are accompanied or not accompanied. what congress wants is for the flores agreement to be overturned and for an extended period of time to allow for them to go through the judicial process without being separated. do i have that right? >> thats correct. we want these prosecutions to be expedited. some places theyre occurring in as little as seven days. if they are, for example, turning arou...