them being illegal or them being illegal aliens where they are not even in a country really, what we stop saying that. the law allows, the constitution allows, through the administration, it does not matter how they enter the a country, between courts, which we heard from the ninth circuit, they are allowed to apply for asylum.co if we want to change that, we should change congress. lisa: the laws are being exploited, we know that is a fact. 8% of these individuals passing their initial threshold with immigration officials and then only 20% are actually granted asylum in immigration court. that is also a fact. i want to get your take, ann, on what chief justice roberts recently said, criticizing president trump, going after the ninth circuit, saying we do not have obama judges or trump judges, bush judges or clinton judges. we have extraordinary group of dedicated judges. your thoughts on that?es i warned the country about justice roberts. i thought he was a mistake. the one thing
policies. the caravan of migrants moves closer to the united states, president trump tried to change u.s. asylum policy so that no one could apply for asylum if they entered the country illegally. they had to apply for asylum at an official point of entry. yesterday judge tigar ruled against it. every case filed in the ninth circuit, we get beaten and then we end up having to go to the supreme court, like the travel ban that we won. the ninth circuit, we ve got to have to look at that. every case, no matter where it is, they file it practically for all intents and purposes, they file it in what s called the ninth circuit. this was an obama judge. that s what led to the chief justice s unprecedented rebuke. he told the associated press today that we do not have obama judges or trump judges, bush judges or clinton judges. what we have is an extra ordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to
federal judge. that criticism prompting a response from chief supreme court justice who said we do not have obama judges, bush judges, or clinton judges, but we have is an extraordinary group of a store near judges doing their level best to do their equal right to those appearing before them. that independent judiciary is something we should all be painful for her. let s bring in our panel. a former advisor to the hillary clinton campaign, good morning to you both. happy thanks giving. thank you. federal judges are appointed to the president. by the very nature of the process, we do have obama and bush judges, et cetera. it shouldn t affect their decisions, but it certainly could reflect their past history by which president chose them for their post. right? absolutely.
reporter: this plan is called remain in mexico and according to the washington post asylum-seekers will no longer be allowed to enter the country and stay while claims through the immigration pours, they will have to wait in mexico unless they can prove they have reasonable fear of persecution there. this comes as the white house is giving us troops more authority to protect border patrol agents and detain migrants, though defense secretary james mattis says i would put it in terms of minutes. of someone is beating on border patrol and as we are in position to have to do something we could stop them from beating on them and take them over and deliver them to a border patrolmen. donald trump went after a federal judge for ruling against his new asylum rules which banned anyone crossing the border illegally referring to him as an obama judge, that prompted a rare response from john roberts who said we do not have obama judges or trump judges, bush judges or clinton judges.
griff: step back for a second. as you mentioned ports of entry. we have them for a reason so can you come legally in here and the president has gotten a lot of praise from the border patrol in particular saying please help us drive traffic to that port of entry. now, there is the pro-immigration folk folks that say no, we don t have time to wait in line. we will go across the river and around the fence and claim anyway and claim asylum. the president takes the step and say we no longer allow to you claim asylum if you cross illegally. if you commit the crime crossing illegally, you have a judge out in san francisco that s going to rule not only in the case of a california situation but he is going to rule universally across the border anywhere. rachel: this is how chief justice roberts responded to president trump s criticism of that judge. he said we do not have obama judges or trump judges. bush judges or clinton judges. what we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doin