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Trust mexicos leaders know best steps and we urge timely action on their part. the united states also has a message for those who are currently part of this caravan or any caravan which follows. you will not be successful at getting into the united states illegally. no matter what. i repeat the caravan will not cross our southern border illegally under any circumstances if you seek so-to-come here, go through the normal refugee process. if you apply for refugee status, a permanent solution is po...

Denial. there was a class action lawsuit south which was successful. they had to adjudicate the kp m claims. there no really legal mechanisms to apply for asylum outside of the united states for those individuals, whereas people from other countries there maybe a refugee process. >> the denial rates are quite high. we had a graphic up of 88% of people denied these asylum claims when they make them. the homeland security secretary said very clearly come to a port of entry, apply for asylum. thats...

>> this is confusing for people. i want to walk through it carefully. there are two ways you can come, refugees you stay in your country, youre in honduras, an apply through the u.s. embassy to be a refugee. the other is an sigh lum seeker which you show up and say i want to be taken in because im fleeing violence or persecution. youre saying the trump administration changed the refugee process to make it more difficult. >> absolutely. it was in august of 2017 they changed the policy under obama...

The other is an sigh lum seeker which you show up and say i want to be taken in because im fleeing violence or persecution. youre saying the trump administration changed the refugee process to make it more difficult. >> absolutely. it was in august of 2017 they changed the policy under obama who was trying to stem the tide of unaccompanied minors coming north that he allowed people to apply for this within their home countries which did diminish the amount of people try to come over. in order to...

Them and i call them all the time. recently i wanted to have conversations with michael ha d heyden and people he hooked me up with. people from the rescue committee, i wanted to understand the vetting process. i was going back to serbia. i wanted to understand the vetting process. the bans that president-elect trump was putting in place and how he and many other people chose to get elected were by telling you to be afraid. ville identifying a peel, the muslim community. >> so this got you into ...

>> well, certainly, those pictures of the kids that were being -- that had the chemical weapons applied to them is a bad deal. it cant help but influence you. when it comes to the refugee process, america has always taken refugees. we will continue to take refugees. obviously, how the refugees are vetted is a matter of discussion and certainly a matter of negotiation between all parties involved in this. but were always going to have refugees here in america. >> well, not necessarily, if it was ...

And as we discussed theres hyperbole from the left from my opponent. and what the trump administration needs to focus on is the fact that its about national security and the countries on the list are state sponsors of terrorism and were talking 90 days or 120 days which is temporary. >> our vetting has worked. >> theres at least 300 -- >> shannon: lets not talk over each other. and the fbi just released there are 300 people who came here under refugee status that are now the subject of terrorism...

Director comey has made reference to refugee process before. here is a little bit what he said before. we can query our databases until the cows come home. nothing will show up because we have no record of that person. you can only query what you have collected. he is referring to countries like the seven that were listed that are either in war torn or dont have those systems. we dont know who these people are how dangerous is it when we are admitting people into our country. now with advance no...

This travel ban is the best thing thats happened to america in a long time? >> i think its really, really important that we keep american as safe and as secure as possible. there is no greater responsibility for the government than to keep americans safe. i think that this is a common sense move made by the president. its so unfortunate that so many people are holding it um and getting in the way of it. pete: nic, people are calling it a ban its actually a pause to review the refugee process in ...

There is a lot of questions that president obama did not want to answer when we first started bringing refugees here. 30-plus governors, members of both parties said we have some concerns about the vetting process for refugees. secretary -- director comey had concerns, the intel community had concerns. and rather than reassuring the american people that we are going to address those, were going to take a hard look at our current vetting process and make certain that it is national security focus...