the backlog facing immigration court. the americanh it immigration lawyers association. explain what the association is and how it is funded. guest: the american immigration lawyers association is the national bar association of the united states with 15,000 immigration lawyer and professor members with chapters across the country. we represent businesses and families seeking to have employees or family members come to the united states. we also have members that represent asylum-seekers who are seeking protection in the united states. paid?how are those folks is a pro bono representation? guest: we have many members doing pro bono work, meaning they take no or low fee to represent someone based on if that person can pay. of course, lawyers are practicing lawyers, so many are paid by whatever business or family that is hiring them. mentioned asylum-seekers. president trump has been expressing concern about the caravan moving through mexico towards the united states. we found out they made it to the border. 150-200 of them. dozens are crossing to start the asylum process. why are they being allowed in after the expressions of concern from the p

the backlog facing immigration court. the americanh it immigration lawyers association. explain what the association is and how it is funded. guest: the americanmmigration lawyers association is the national bar association of the united states with 15,000 immigration lawyer and professor members with chapters across the country. we represent businesses and families seeking to have employees or family members come to the united states. we also have members that represent asylum-seekers who are seeking protection in the united states. paid?how are those folks is a pro bono representation? guest: we have many members doing pro bono work, meaning they take no or low fee to represent someone based on if that person can pay. of course, lawyers are practicing lawyers, so many are paid by whatever business or family that is hiring them. mentioned asylum-seekers. president trump has been expressing concern about the caravan moving through mexico towards the united states. we found out they made it to the border. 150-200 of them. dozens are crossing to start the asylum process. why are they being allowed in after the expressions of concern from the pre

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joining us now with reaction the american immigration lawyers association. anatasia i'm sure you disagree with with a lot of what i say. i'll just let you comment. >> as i explained earlier a lot of the comments are on the political climate on economics, i'll limit my comments to the immigration laws, and happy to discuss the policies and how those are --. >> so you're telling us what you won't talk about so let's talk about what, why there's been, and i think we have a graphic, a 10-fold increase in the claims for asylum coming out of these northern triangle countries, especially honduras. requests increased 10-fold between 2009 and 2016. why do you think it is? >> again, i mean there are issues in those countries, there's a lot of political unrest. there have been just traditionally, there were as a result of deportations a lot of the prisoners that were in gangs in l.a. and were depoured have taken advantage of political chaos in the countries and were able to take advantage of systems, which leads to violence. we see a lot of the asylum seekers are women,