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Previous administration. you know that's down 75% from the hundred thousands that we are used to seeing. it is in cocomprehensible. >> one can't figure out. >> to make an example of them so that it becomes a deterrent to future asylum seekers or immigrants. people are being given a choice. give up your rights to a asylsyr get your child back. >> many of these people do have good reason to believe that they should be released and they do fear persecution from their own countries and face incredible violence in those countries and they can make those claims and

Ready. if europe is not ready to handle the situation, what is the united states' role? >> that's an interesting question, susan, because so far the u.s. has accepted somewhere between 1,000 and 1,800 refugees from syria in the last year. so the question is, do we accept more and rick talked about a national security aspect and also the national security aspect as you bring in thousands of refugees, might some of them be terrorists? >> well, i suppose it's possible. although we recognize our obligation of people having a well-founded fear of persecution in their homeland that they get humanita...

Part of what happens as i listen to lindsey talk about the position of the u.n. or even talk about the position of k.i.n.d. keep feeling like the u.s. discourse is though we are not one of the nations of the world with the same responsibilities. as though we are set apart and that this is an immigration issue, rather than a refugee crisis. >> that's clear. that's clear for the message we're hearing recently flt white house, it's even clear in the president's comments recently. we are talking about a refugee crisis, migration of individuals who are fear persecution at home, and we're talking ab...