Anderson Cooper to Steve Cortes: Would You Want Your Kids to Live in Mexico?

‘The fact that they then cross the entirety of Mexico to come to the U.S. border tells me it’s about economic migration’

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COOPER: “Steve, would you want your kids living in wars in Mexico?”
CORTES: “I'm saying, if it were about asylum, if they were fleeing for their lives, when they got to Mexico and were offered generous asylum terms and work permits, yes, they would take it there. The fact that they then cross the entirety of Mexico to come to the U.S. border tells me it's about economic migration. And look, the numbers prove this out, 90% of them who apply for asylum are determined to be ineligible. So they are gaming our system. They know that asylum is a way to game the U.S. System. It's unfair to Americans and by the way, a lot of Americans live in terrible circumstances in this country. I'm a lot more focussed on trying to raise their standard of living before we raise the stand of living of Hondurans and Guatemalans.”

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