James Lankford: “Senator Tillis, that is correct that during the past several administrations, we had millions of people who have…”

“Senator Tillis, that is correct that during the past several administrations, we had millions of people who have actually crossed our border, have either never requested asylum--at the border, they declared they were going to ask for asylum but, literally, never did, never filled out the paperwork, never even tried because they knew they weren't eligible--or they travelled through multiple countries on the way, never requested asylum because they wanted to come to America, which I don't blame them. It is the greatest country in the world. But that is not what asylum is. ``Asylum'' means I have fear in my entire country. There is no safe place in my country, so I fled to the next safe place. That is what the international definition of ``asylum'' is.”