united states? traditionally they would be able to be considered. >> i think many people are gaming the system so we should be highly skeptical however the united states has always been a refuge for the persecuted. >> but if those things are no longer -- this administration considered things worthy of asylum, no? >> coming from a crumby place isn't reason for asylum. if you are being persecuted because of some classification, your race, religious beliefs, gender. if you're truly being persecuted because of those issues, those are legitimate reasons for asylum in the united states and we have a process to apply for that. the process doesn't include a thousand people waving a foreign flag and firing projectiles, throwing rocks at our customs and border protection agents. the majority of whom, by the way, are hispanic. that is not the process trying