She laid out her plan to solve the immigration dilemma — which she said the president is using to "keep beating... as a political drum."
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00:00You would begin to organize a system so that people could be quickly processed in a legal and humane way.
00:10You would not be separating families and putting babies in cages.
00:22Here's what we should be doing and we could be doing if the president wanted to solve the problem
00:27as opposed to keep beating it as a political drum to try to rally his supporters.
00:35What is asylum? Asylum is a request by a person who under our law has the right to come and say
00:45there are reasons why I cannot stay in my home country. I am seeking asylum.
00:51Now how do you resolve asylum cases? You resolve them by eventually having somebody appear before
00:58an immigration judge to have their case heard. Now if you really wanted to solve this problem
01:05you would double, you would quadruple the number of immigration judges, you would hire more people,
01:11you would send them to the border, you would begin to organize a system so that people could be
01:18quickly processed in a legal and humane way. You would not be separating families and putting babies in cages.
01:32One of the worst things this administration has done is to separate those children and have no system
01:38that actually would tell you where they are.
01:41I mean I would go to the big tech companies and I would say okay, you've got 15 days, give me a system
01:52so that I can keep track of everybody. I'm not going to lose anyone. No baby, no older person,
01:58everybody is going to be in the system and we're going to have enough judges down there,
02:02we're going to have decent housing conditions and we're going to start hearing those cases.
02:06That is what someone who wanted to solve the problem would be doing as opposed to either denying it
02:12or politicizing it and that's what I hope eventually will be done.