 That's the first line on the documents. They've been arrested. You're not a refugee asylum if you've been arrested at the border, number one. Number two, you don't throw away your passports at the border if you're looking for asylum. And, yes, this is a country of laws. Either you break the law or you don't break the law. It's very simple. It has nothing to do with going back 400 years or what color skin you are.