past. the truth is that our laws should be enforced. what donald trump wants to do is change the asylum laws so we don t actually allow anybody to come in. he said that himself. and you know that. when we ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform, his whole focus is actually not to solve this problem. it s to democrat going tagogue . a lot of people didn t like it because he wanted to actually change the immigration laws. let them in, give them asylum processing no. what i m saying no, no, what i m saying is we have a process. if people are adjudicated to be proper asylum seekers they get in. if they don t, if they re rejected, our laws are such that they should be deported out. that is the law today. why he can t actually follow the law is a couple things. i have worked these issues for two decades. i headed up you should know what the law is. let me finish. it s what it is. i do know what the law is and obviously with all due respect,
were brought in for asylum processing, hoping, of course, to be admitted to the united states. cnn has been following the so-called caravan. we ll have the very latest on what s going on next. hey! this ll help. rocket mortgage® by quicken loans® makes the complex simple. there s also origination fees and. this takes care of it, thank you. yeah. understand the details and get approved in as few as eight minutes. and it s time to get outside. pack in even more adventure with audible.
we need to help more tocalifornians get ahead.d, that s why antonio villaraigosa brought both parties together to balance the state budget with record investments in public schools. and new career training programs. as mayor of la, he brought police and residents together to get illegal guns off the streets and keep kids out of gangs, and on the right path. that s antonio villaraigosa. a governor for all of california. organizers say 17 more central american moigts have been selected for asylum processing after being part of the so-called caravan of migrants on the u.s. border with mexico.
there s a lot of talk about what s happening on the border in a different state, california, that so-called migrant caravan. assume you ve been following the news. we re now told that 28 migrants from that caravan have been admitted to the u.s. for asylum processing. i want to ask you on this. do you think these folks, these migrants that are going through this process, are going through this lawfully or do you agree with the president who said these people are openly defying our border? which is it to you? i think there s with these immigration groups i think they have orchestrated this. i don t think it s the best way to approach this. we have a legal immigration process. this is the asylum process. are these folks following that legal immigration process? well, i think having all these people come at the same time makes it one, more challenging because have you so many people to process at the same time. we do have an asylum process. these people are going to have to demon
reporter: what i can tell you is the eight people who have begun their asylum process is a sign of hope for those here. you can see that they re living under tarps, they re sleeping on blankets, on concrete. that s really the only blankets separating them from the pavement, kate. what those eight people represent to them is a sign of hope that they will actually begin to be able to have a life in the united states. but some perspective on this. even though that is day one for those eight people and we heard cheers in the crowd as that news was announced, it is going to take them years, approximately six years, to find the end, some sort of resolution for that asylum processing. there are about 620,000 people who have no resolution yet or are still waiting on the list, kate. so despite all of that, the people who are here, the children who are playing here say they are not going to move, that they intend to wait here as long as possible for the hope of