controlled by the rebels, killing all 298 people on board. kiev says militia men have removed 238 bodies and taken them to a rebel held city. malaysians are outraged. it would be a betrayal of the lives that we lost. their lives were taken by violence. now violence is holding them away from their loved ones. this cannot continue. new video is surfacing reportedly showing the actual rocket launcher used to bring down the plane f . it is apparently missing two of its four missiles. it s so useful. it s senseless what happened.
mayor. you see the stats of foreign born students in the schools. 238 from guatemala and 126 of these illegal unaccompanied. what about this? let s bring in our panel. senior political columnist from washington journal and a columnist for fortune magazine. there s a push to secure the border even though harry reid says it s secured from republicans and some democrats. and then you have the left pushing for compassion here especially for kids from central america. the president is in a political pickle. like we have seen before, this is a time where part of it is because of events outside of his control and being president is a tough job but part of it is him mishandling it. he laid back and laid blame and now he s getting hit from all sides. what about this pushback?
applications, el salvador, honduras, guatemala, to countries other than the united states. stop you there for a second. 712% increase in asylum petitions coming from the people in those three countries to countries that weren t the u.s. just trying to get out to wherever they could get out. that s right. i mean, nicaragua last year, for examp example, in just one year experienced a 238% increase. so when we talk about asylum status, under u.s. law, you have to demonstrate persecution. there are different groups that that persecution might fall into it. if you re being persecuted based on your race, religious creed, or ethnic identification. that doesn t seem to be the case here with these children. it seems like much more of a gray area in which they re facing the possibility of gang violence essentially run amok, murder rates higher than anywhere else in the world, but does that actually count in an official sense as being a refugee? so, the definition of refugee is someone wh
we are putting this all into perspective. some people, this is bad, this is 7-1 in soccer, unheard of. you re right, i think brazil fans are waking up this morning thinking, did that really happen? but it did happen. and twitter definitely knew about it. there were over 35 and a half million tweets about the match which is a record for the most tweeted about single sporting event. just how bad it was? well these numbers from espn radio give you an idea of how germany s seven goals were compared. it would be like been nfl team scoring 236 points and the other team scoring 238 points. 22 runs or nhl team scoring 14 goals. pretty bad. and the odds of germany scoring that many times were slim at just.022% or one in 4,520.
countries other than the united states. stop you there for a second. 712% increase in asylum petitions coming from the people in those three countries to countries that weren t the u.s. just trying to get out to wherever they could get out. that s right. i mean, nicaragua last year, for example, in just one year experienced a 238% increase. so when we talk about asylum status, under u.s. law, you have to demonstrate persecution. there are different groups that that persecution might fall into it. if you re being persecuted based on your race, religious creed, or ethnic identification. that doesn t seem to be the case here with these children. it seems like much more of a gray area in which they re facing the possibility of gang violence essentially run amok, murder rates higher than anywhere else in the world, but does that actually count in an official sense as being a