WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:02:34.4690000" NOTE recognizability:0.858 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.87666845 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.926 This year our borders have been NOTE Confidence: 0.87666845 00:00:01.926 --> 00:00:03.210 overwhelmed with people trying NOTE Confidence: 0.87666845 00:00:03.269 --> 00:00:04.925 to cross into the United States. NOTE Confidence: 0.87666845 00:00:04.930 --> 00:00:06.655 Experts telling our reporters that NOTE Confidence: 0.87666845 00:00:06.655 --> 00:00:08.683 EU S immigration system is set NOTE Confidence: 0.87666845 00:00:08.683 --> 00:00:10.363 up for people to do just that. NOTE Confidence: 0.87666845 00:00:10.370 --> 00:00:12.477 Show up and ask for asylum on NOTE Confidence: 0.87666845 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:13.990 US soil as our border. NOTE Confidence: 0.87666845 00:00:13.990 --> 00:00:15.198 Team reporter Anastasia Bolton NOTE Confidence: 0.87666845 00:00:15.198 --> 00:00:17.010 learned if they want to work, NOTE Confidence: 0.87666845 00:00:17.010 --> 00:00:18.816 some have to wait decades to NOTE Confidence: 0.87666845 00:00:18.820 --> 00:00:19.729 get formal permission. NOTE Confidence: 0.8556606 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:25.576 It is impossible to strip away NOTE Confidence: 0.8556606 00:00:25.576 --> 00:00:27.107 the politics and feelings America NOTE Confidence: 0.8556606 00:00:27.107 --> 00:00:29.138 has about immigration. It is such NOTE Confidence: 0.8556606 00:00:29.140 --> 00:00:30.058 an American topic. NOTE Confidence: 0.8556606 00:00:30.058 --> 00:00:31.592 We have this national mythology NOTE Confidence: 0.8556606 00:00:31.592 --> 00:00:33.164 that I grew up learning, NOTE Confidence: 0.8556606 00:00:33.164 --> 00:00:34.744 which was anybody around the NOTE Confidence: 0.8556606 00:00:34.744 --> 00:00:36.620 world could come here and become NOTE Confidence: 0.8556606 00:00:36.620 --> 00:00:38.350 an American if they want to. NOTE Confidence: 0.8556606 00:00:38.350 --> 00:00:40.810 And if we apply the immigration rules that NOTE Confidence: 0.8556606 00:00:40.810 --> 00:00:42.646 we have today backwards in time, NOTE Confidence: 0.8556606 00:00:42.650 --> 00:00:44.384 virtually none of my fellow Americans NOTE Confidence: 0.8556606 00:00:44.384 --> 00:00:46.192 would be here today because their NOTE Confidence: 0.8556606 00:00:46.192 --> 00:00:47.986 ancestors would not have been able NOTE Confidence: 0.8556606 00:00:47.986 --> 00:00:50.020 to legally immigrate here. The asylum NOTE Confidence: 0.8556606 00:00:50.020 --> 00:00:52.295 system along the border is not working. NOTE Confidence: 0.8556606 00:00:52.300 --> 00:00:54.829 Very well, uh, but a lot of the asylum NOTE Confidence: 0.8556606 00:00:54.829 --> 00:00:57.392 system has in recent years been a NOTE Confidence: 0.8556606 00:00:57.392 --> 00:00:58.868 substitute for the nonfunctional NOTE Confidence: 0.8556606 00:00:58.933 --> 00:01:00.900 guest worker visa program. You NOTE Confidence: 0.87020165 00:01:00.900 --> 00:01:02.958 often hear people say things like, NOTE Confidence: 0.87020165 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:04.615 why don't they just get NOTE Confidence: 0.87020165 00:01:04.615 --> 00:01:06.750 in line or I'm for them? NOTE Confidence: 0.87020165 00:01:06.750 --> 00:01:09.494 If they just go through the legal process. NOTE Confidence: 0.87020165 00:01:09.500 --> 00:01:10.816 But the reality is, NOTE Confidence: 0.87020165 00:01:10.816 --> 00:01:13.280 for the vast majority of the world, NOTE Confidence: 0.87020165 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:15.236 there is no way to legally NOTE Confidence: 0.87020165 00:01:15.236 --> 00:01:17.070 immigrate to the United States. NOTE Confidence: 0.87020165 00:01:17.070 --> 00:01:19.492 So there are people who will be NOTE Confidence: 0.87020165 00:01:19.492 --> 00:01:22.346 born and die in the amount of time. NOTE Confidence: 0.87020165 00:01:22.350 --> 00:01:24.638 It might take just to get a visa NOTE Confidence: 0.87020165 00:01:24.638 --> 00:01:27.147 to come here to the United States. NOTE Confidence: 0.87020165 00:01:27.150 --> 00:01:29.088 You cannot apply for asylum from NOTE Confidence: 0.87020165 00:01:29.088 --> 00:01:30.986 your home country under U.S. law. NOTE Confidence: 0.87020165 00:01:30.986 --> 00:01:33.514 The only way for a person to apply NOTE Confidence: 0.87020165 00:01:33.514 --> 00:01:36.110 for asylum is to get onto US soil. NOTE Confidence: 0.24017261 00:01:37.900 --> 00:01:38.720 Is castle. NOTE Confidence: 0.85205585 00:01:41.330 --> 00:01:43.465 That's what Marlene was hoping to do. NOTE Confidence: 0.85205585 00:01:43.470 --> 00:01:45.605 She's from Honduras now, living in Mexico. NOTE Confidence: 0.85205585 00:01:45.610 --> 00:01:49.570 She said a visa wasn't available to her. NOTE Confidence: 0.85205585 00:01:49.570 --> 00:01:52.010 Hello this is. Persona. NOTE Confidence: 0.84713537 00:01:55.020 --> 00:01:56.988 I mean, you talk to asylum NOTE Confidence: 0.84713537 00:01:56.988 --> 00:01:58.300 seekers at the border. NOTE Confidence: 0.84713537 00:01:58.300 --> 00:02:00.540 The number one thing they often tell NOTE Confidence: 0.84713537 00:02:00.540 --> 00:02:03.549 me is I want to do the right thing, NOTE Confidence: 0.84713537 00:02:03.550 --> 00:02:06.022 but the reality is the system is not NOTE Confidence: 0.84713537 00:02:06.022 --> 00:02:08.796 set up to give them a better option. NOTE Confidence: 0.84713537 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:11.216 One of the best proven ways to reduce NOTE Confidence: 0.84713537 00:02:11.216 --> 00:02:13.716 the number of people crossing the border NOTE Confidence: 0.84713537 00:02:13.720 --> 00:02:15.676 illegally is to expand legal immigration. NOTE Confidence: 0.84713537 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:17.962 Congress has the power to change the NOTE Confidence: 0.84713537 00:02:17.962 --> 00:02:20.622 system when and how remains to be seen NOTE Confidence: 0.84713537 00:02:20.622 --> 00:02:22.568 with Jose Sanchez, I'm Anastasia Bolton. NOTE Confidence: 0.8549625 00:02:23.980 --> 00:02:26.374 The US also has limits on how many visas NOTE Confidence: 0.8549625 00:02:26.374 --> 00:02:28.755 are issued to each country every year. NOTE Confidence: 0.8549625 00:02:28.760 --> 00:02:30.944 The last time EU S expanded the NOTE Confidence: 0.8549625 00:02:30.944 --> 00:02:32.575 number of immigrants allowed into NOTE Confidence: 0.8549625 00:02:32.575 --> 00:02:34.465 the country was 30 years ago.