The 8% figure you love to quote over and over is the percent of asylum granted compared to the applications processed in one particular calendar year. It is NOT the percent of legitimate asylum cases compared to the total number of people who came into this country illegally.
What figure have I quoted that you have a problem with?
Your obsession to perpetuate this conversation based on your demonstratively wrong premise is interesting. Why do you think that continuing to repeat an immaterial (to the conversation) statistic is going to change the fact that it is immaterial? Do you think that eventually it will change the original premise of the conversation? Perhaps you should seek professional help rather than expecting me to concede to your delusion.
There is no confusion on my part. The percentage of illegal border crossers who have a legitimate claim for asylum under our law compared to the total number of illegal border crossers is very small. It is nowhere near the 8% that you persistently claim, nor the 5% bandied about by others. I firmly stand on my original premise that it is “closer to 0.5% than 5%.”
Now move on. To continue to rag on this issue further is pure trolling.
Just one … When are you going to accept that I do not agree to disagree with you? You are not just holding a different opinion, you are flat out wrong.
It’s not in my opinion, it’s mathematics. To arrive at your opinion, one has to use numbers from the wrong data set. You are still dividing the number of approved applications by the number of processed applications. But the correct answer is achieved by dividing the number of approved applications by the total number of illegal border crossers.