on the existing plans that was submitted to dbi and the planning commission which were approved by mr. lum already shared with you that shows adu. so i have a legal obligation with my contractor to have him build it out. i'm paying him money for that, so there's no way i'm not building this adu. and the only reason we are adding the basement at a cost of almost half a million dollars just to do all the excavation is because the planning commission said without going up and out, because the neighbors didn't want us to, they said adding it in the basement is where you should do it with the set backs so there's plenty of light. i'm happy to not do it in the basement and do it above zone and push it out perthe zoning at 25% lot line, but that was what was not acceptable to the neighbors, so we didn't do it. we've tried several approaches. i just think it's time to move on and start construction without further delays. >> and lastly, i did want -- there was a question about why it was so large. there was a question, especially christine johnson, the planning commissioner, did request it to be l

mr. author, in terms of asylum, how does it work? if somebody's living in a poor country where there's crime, can they come here and say, asay lum, or do they have to quaff for certain types -- maybe they were persecuted on the basis of race or give us an idea of how it's working? >> to create asylum in the united states you have to show a fear of per cushion on behalf of race and -- four of those are easy to find. the fifth one, membership in a particular social group is vague in its interpretation. fortunately, general sessions has certified a case to himself which he will classify the parameters for claiming asylum. >> so, most of us believe that, you know there is a role for people who are being persecuted in the united states, does want to be a refuge for folks in that situation. but, if you're coming in because you want to better job opportunity, or here using some other thing, isn't that the kind of run around, the legal immigration process where they should be applying to come here if they're not in any of those buckets that you're talking about? >> unfortunately. unfortunately it's worse than that. the bad claims take away