Ron DeSantis: “Most of these people are gaming parts of the law the way…”

“I mean, for example, you can't just shut down the borders. There has to be some legal pathways for immigration. Legal immigration, yes, but that's different than what's happening. And some of these. Most of these people are gaming parts of the law the way it's interpreted, showing up, going illegally across the border, then claiming asylum. when they've gone through six or seven other countries to get there. That's not the way asylum works. I mean, we've had legitimate asylum people who probably would have been killed or persecuted if they didn't leave.” (27:35–27:43)

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