I dont know anything about this Cucinelli guy, but I encourage our local civic activists to study our asylum laws as written and learn/reinforce what exactly they cover. I'm not advocating for changing our asylum laws. You should just read them.
By the way, within the past year I helped a Muslim male from the middle east who entered this country illegally across the southern border gain legal asylee status in this country by representing him in front of the Board of Immigration Appeals, so spare the ad hominens/tu quoques.