Former President Bill Clinton told host Fareed Zakaria on CNN’s “Global Public Square” podcast that there is a “limit” to how many illegal immigrants the United States can take without causing disruption and that some “game” the system.

“Now what you have is a lot of people who are essentially economic migrants… essentially gaming the system, using the asylum as a way to get in. Isn’t it true that there has to be some order placed on this? Some control?” Zakaria asked.

“I agree with that. That there is a limit to how many migrants any society can take without severe disruption and assistance, and our system is based much more on an assumption that things would be more normal,” he stated, referring to the historically unprecedented number of border crossings.