Bob Goodlatte: Obama administration to blame for spike in asylum requests

The Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee accused the Obama administration Wednesday of not doing enough to prevent the growing number of foreigners entering the United States by seeking asylum.

In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., warned that foreigners, particularly from Mexico, are exploiting a law that allows those with a “credible fear” of persecution in their own country to enter the U.S. The number of immigrants entering the U.S. under that asylum provision has quadrupled over the past four years to more than 19,000, according to federal immigration services.