Because when became two of us at table with executive actions you bring the Law Enforcement because you want to hear from the Law Enforcement perspective what that meant to us. Based on our experience. With the prairies. But i do have some input to. This is why the priorities make sense. Luscious except that 12 million. Most aliens do the math. 4,090,000 is less than 3 . With the budget and the resources of that percent population it needs to cow. That should not be the first 400,000 in the door or the first 400,000 we find we have to pick and choose. With those parties are currently working. And with those press releases and then just by the right thing. It just speaks to what i know. Melissa is not working. Ninetyeight 235,000 was 98 percent that is pretty close to perfect. Ninetyone of the people that we arrested interior had a criminal conviction that is almost perfect. Class 959 percent of everyone removed at a criminal conviction sell those that say they are not Pay Attention to their priorities are not looking at the numbers because those speak for themselves. We know that route is an issue. But by is to execute the mission within the framework policies resources our budget. Execute the mission. You dont have to like it but the numbers. So i supported that program and let me tell you why i have 8,000 lawenforcement officers for every one that is not andrea knocking on the door. We are concentrating on the worst of the worst we dont know what is behind the door. And the manner woman that works for me is knocking on the door that is a safety issue. Said that could bring back jurisdictions to the table. Are they back in full form . No purple even the most difficult jurisdictions only want to work with the most significant dylan at one dash balances one must i have to worry about. It is better than where we were last year. From the safety perspective date priority perspective. Bob that the biometric capabilities was the biggest plus a reallife example we arrester we are found people that were here illegally. When we found them we arrested them. If theyre illegal and not put in detention. Meanwhile that is better for 20 years with the childs serving end of military. Because there is no meaningful way to staff over 4,000 of this city jails or the precincts. What the secure communities did was give us a virtual presence. Said now we dont have staff. And now concentrating with whoever we find the area of food we put our hands on so the security committees gave us those. And let me just explain if any of us get arrested to nothing difference with a criminal history check it will be bounced off said vhs data base and we decide. The sideways when somebody is illegal here maybe with a traffic offense. To wrap up the non priority person we can agree or disagree but that is why the message it is sideways mes still have the biometric capability but now weve taken shoes before we take action. To actually know where we didnt have that before. Family detention and i am one of the ones you can hate me for love me the bottom line we are a sovereign country. For those who want to question of the family attention operates have been to multiple facilities many times. Through the Educational Program with a Significant Health program. With other organizations also. And then running around 14 or 15 days today want to make up claim . But back before we have this whole lot of the families were not claiming fear. So we really have a claim to fear and more have the opportunity now. And the Asylum Seekers, i think because that is a valid claim. As a parent and as a father and denied in joey detaining families that i try to enforce the law. And that it goes out the same time it is very simple in that regard, that my job is so my role basically is transportation where rick tell us to take the child is where we take them so that basis spent millions of dollars to compete uh criminal conspiracy in to say i have 8,000 long for some officers and it is clear what the job is and Congress Appropriates me to do that in my yearly funding. So the men and women are doing with their funded to do. Im sure they will come up for january and february. And come up with an operation targeted enforcement operation that had the due process. That people have their rights in court but remember in from the immigration judge my job is to execute the order. Isnt matter of if for canada should so those that wanted to process of law to stem by the laws of this country, once you have that my job to execute nothing needs to be done. Of targeted Enforcement Actions in know exactly who we are looking for. We dont go to schools or community events. We go to an address that we have looking for a specific person. So there is no neighborhood raids. One thing you did not read during the operation is to walk away from many families with the mother was pregnant or breastfeeding a child. Many families we chose not to arrest them for detention because of Health Issues of Breast Feeding babies the mother may have them pregnant. The whole detainer issue that Program Makes sense and as a convicted criminal and the altercation to ask the lawenforcement agency do not hold them one minute longer than you would. So i think that gives them a different option. And the detainer issue altogether them let the courts work that out but i will share this with you. Pet bottles lot of people back to the table i am grateful there are some jurisdictions that are not. We will keep working to bring them back. But at some point there needs to be a mandate to work with us. Because on one hand you cannot have the department of justice funding not cooperating with the others with enforce Immigration Laws. Im sure i have a lot of questions coming but this is my talk. And it is emotional for me. And all of these decisions are based on fact were the rule of law if you dont think have a tough job come sit with before day that is where i met and more than happy to take any questions. I think he deserves a round of applause sitting at a table full of lawyers. [laughter] some images both candid and transparent. Thanks for being here. But as charles said dash Senior Adviser from the immigration and Customs Enforcement come from dallas texas original and immigration advocate previously prior practicing where was very happy with my family and kids the director calls we have to say to join me in washington d. C. And i thought about it and the idea to serve the public good and it is quite eye opening to see all of the nuances of the decisions that must be made and it is a uh tough job but he does every day and with the strong leadership it is good to be back and asking at least 20. I am one of the Fan Club Members when working in early in my career he was on the offline pack when mandatory detention was coming back into play. Select call him steve jobs of the Immigration Law. [laughter] so when is good to be here you may not have known him before but now you do. Bet you may not recognize his face or name he is signatory like the treatment of transgendered and pregnant women and wine coming about custody relations one dash city may talk a tough game but he looks at everything to balance in ways that are n our custody. In with that discussion and to make a foreword. And with that family detention of a bite to elaborate little bit on that exercise of general discretion or where i played a role but it do we even use it . Sometimes we ask for a road map however the truth is there is no magic formula or miracle care as they exercise this on the case but case basis with the individual matter and notes to cases are the same but we made the facts of these cases and back in dallas texas i was known as does wearing them down knowing how hard it was to give before the courts cyano sometimes it like the decisions that we make but what i want to do is to encourage the lawyers and stakeholders and law students who are practicing to work with local field offices to see if Additional Information cannot be presented. Idea with colleagues at d. H. Us and we ask them to take another look. And looking at the of memos. The deal the way to know that is to have the decision because the director credits the field with being able to handle the cases. And to respect that process with the chief counsel and once the determination is made then you can use the system to escalate the process within email address. Board to the mailbox signor area that can be found on the website and we will take another look at that. And to be as transparent with those stakeholders in general. And digging of transparency that is what they have vast to make sure that we continue to grow our engagement. So being interactive and asked me to build up the office of the engagement and office of Public Affairs and now community engagement. With it team of officers in each of the field offices. He said we need to in every field office. We have the resources for that but he is serious that he supports the special agents to have a conduit to be heard in the with the issues that the of local level but they dont become giant issues at the Headquarters Level we want them to communicate with our community and bring back information with the community itself. About halfway there we should have 24 Community Relations officers. So do less the favor and reach out to see how that might be a way to light in them for the issues in your local community. I am honored to be on the penalties feasting wished to distinguished individuals. And to keep our country say five fully understand that not many people will take on that task. And also from our perspective our job is equally important. And so i hope you will receive my remarks from that one is. And then to prioritize the removal. But i do believe there are problems in the implementation of that. But there seems to be a connect with what is happening on paper with policy members and additionally one of those enumerated parities for enforcement and many of these are refugees and Asylum Seekers. I have a private practice here in d. C. And i focus and then with a family detention context. And that is a priority that is problematic to focus on criminals and the results of that is the criminalization of Asylum Seekers. For the bonafide refugees. So want to leave my remarks to show you what this is looking like on the ground and ask that you consider in the of lands to frame a question in the beginning of the day about whod want to be as a country . As they relate to the Asylum Seekers and for me this in is a serious refugee crisis in the northern triangle and it has resulted in women and children and when they get there they are faced with expedited removal and all of these enforcement policies that have merit to end their idea but in the implementation have failed. And that has banned interesting from a policy perspective is the inconsistency to deal with that refugee crisis based on where the people are located the people are outside of the u. S. The Obama Administration calls this humanitarian crisis. But then to meet with leaders to address of violence. And even suspended the peace corps operations it called for increased refugee assistance to develop and country refugee referrals also program. So with at happening in the region but those that seek protection is a complete the different rhetoric and a completely different sets of policies they are facing. And in june of the World Refugee day of the Obama Administration announced it would increasing the use of the asylum seeking families on the border specifically stating of illegal crossing into the United States. Secretary Johnson States we will send you back. And at rhetoric is influenced into the population to prioritize the cases of us Central American family is. And then to recognize that and everybody is a refugee. And being able to access those were some of the questions that we used Hour National identity as the guard at guidepost now like to share messina those facilities through the lens of who we want to be as a country. And with inadequate it medical care by the guards to the women and children. And then to recount the stories of the severed the stories of how they have suffered. Those are some of the scenes that if you volunteer in the facilities that you see, and its not just one person, its every Single Person i talked to has suffered horrible violence like this and then once they get here seeking protection and enforcement. Detention in peace conditions has been proven to compound the trauma that children and women have suffered in their own countries. Social service providers, religious leaders, psychologists have all agreed that fact. It also has serious due process concerns, access to counsel and interpreters. If it were not for the project, it would be impossible because these Detention Centers are far away from any metropolitan area with ngos and any other pro bono attorneys addressing these issues. Interpreters, theres huge issues there onl not only for spanish speakers but many of the others from guatemala are indigenous and its nearly impossible to get an interpreter and use an interpreter in the context of family detention. Access to witnesses and evidence and emotional support and Mental Health care are also impeded by the detention projects. And so, from my view, using detention for asylumseekers is and a policy choice that should ever be made. These women and children are not criminals. They are seeking protection and to survive to save their lives. I never would be an advocate for open borders, but detention in my view of asylumseekers is simply not the answer. It violates our domestic and International Legal obligations not to return refugees back to prosecution and torture them and its not effective as a deterrent mechanism. These women like i said are coming here to survive. They will not be detoured by jail. Its also quite expensive to taxpayers. One thing i couldnt help but think about when i was volunteering in the center is this is where my taxpayer money is going to detain a 4yearold child. It costs 159 per day, per person, which is up to 5. 46 million in any given day. There is an annual detention of 2 billion. So just thinking about the financial implications of that when there are other alternatives that might be equally effective for enforcement purposes is fairly mind blowing. So for me i see this family detention concept and expedited removal as smothering of due process and a barrier to access to the asylum system. And i think the answer is who we are as a country i think no. Thank you all. We are going to open up for questions now so please, come to the microphone with any thoughts, comments and questions. I have a followup to your last statement which is the notion of alternatives and maybe we can get all of you involved in talking about that but what is out there . What is the alternative to Holding People now 14 days if not longer i think another situations . What has been tossed around and what has worked . Let me talk about a few things first of all. Detaining asylumseekers, again they can claim asylum, but at the end of the day, less than half of them are getting asylum approved by the immigration courts. Once they find a positive finding, we work towards release. So certainly if the facilities as we have a good case we are not detaining them needlessly. That is fact number one. As far as the alternatives, let me say this first of all, between three to 400 persons a year come to our system. I am funded for 34,000. So we detain a very small fragment of the population we run to every year. One in 12 people actually see detention anytime in their lifecycle. So very few. But there are alternatives to detention. Many people that are released depending on the Community Ties and do they have a criminal history and a lot of different facts we decide if the decided e released on alternative detention from ankle bracelet down to the telephonic reporting to the home visits an office visit. But when it comes down to it, again, the numbers are the numbers. We removed people we detain. People often fail to appear in court or to get a final order we cant locate them like the latest operation port most of the people we went to go look for either never lived at the residence were moved when they got the order. So at the end after having due process is difficult many times. I think they have a role in what we do and its actually increased our alternative funding each year in the past several years and we have maxed out that alternative so it is an option and its successful in some circumstances but what we find in the higher levels or the appearance in court but when it comes to the final order, the numbers significantly decline so it is a option tha an option the everyday. The officer Safety Program is intriguing. I never thought of it like that. I think that is very insightful way to think about it. The alternative detention is not to detain. We dont have to use 235 b. Against the population. We can use 236 which allows for the judges to make cuts to the decisions in a more transparent process. Totally believe in due process. Thats like my lifeblood. Just a couple of numbers, the government forced us to the merits of the cases in so they didnt have universal representation so we represented anybody that was there. We didnt mee leave out anybodyt a strong case. So we had a 98 of grant rate on the asylum and if we had a 100 on the merits. I think those are important. We are not going through the cases in strong cases, we are taking with the government gives us. On the Operation Border guard, there were more than 100 women and children that were picked up generally from some of the very thought i would call hostile jurisdictions building the centers of excellence and they were taken and we asked to represent every single one thats here, can we just talk to them and the administration was actually forceful preventing our access, but we could gain some access and for every one we gained access to be represented. We didnt screen like we are representing you. Each one of those cases we had a 100 when so those were all final workers and we were able to show that there had been a fundamental failure in the processing of the case. I would like to add me as a family Case Management and a special adviser. Would you raise your hand . Shes here today. So this program is actually a pilot program. One of five metropolitan regions it is an alternative to the detention setting where the former abilities are assessed and the whole premise is of course the compliance with any order that comes into play that we are using a set of tools with the case managers trained in this area to have people comply with their obligations that were not dealing with the highend venture rates that we have seen historically. One clarification on the operation, first of all th all y were given access to attorneys however you have to keep in mind we certainly cant just make them available. They are represented by the attorneys that we work through that and got to get placed. As far as 100 success, it was 100 on the families from el salvador to outside of what they usually would do so that surprised us and a lot of people in those cases that are still being litigated in favor of the government so again we want everybody to have the due process. We do not want to relive anybody from the country unless they have to process. Thats something we pay very close attention to. I am one of the trained by charles that was mentioned. [laughter] i was hoping you could comment on something new dree collopy mentioned in passing on the disconnect between guidance coming from the top and what we are seeing on the ground. Just some examples of what you give [inaudible] if you could comment on your idea of having a voice at the table when Something Like executive action is happening versus officers bringing suit against the administration. You mentioned the implementation of secure communities where i could see the value of having that when you show it that way having the connection getting made on the ground of who and then you mentioned also having that extra line to catch when its not being claimed that the border pc on paper of a three af threeyearolds coming here to work so theres a disconnect between the ages and i was curious have you seen that change should in your time there and what is being done to address that issue . First of all, implementation versus policy. I hear that all the time. We have a lot of Law Enforcement officers out there all doing a great job. However, the numbers speak for themselves. Last year 98 of everyone removed fro, 91 of people we arrested had a criminal conviction. So we can do the one offs all we want, but as an agency that men and women executed the policy are pretty close to perfectly. Our mistakes made . Probably but as an agency we are performing very well. The numbers are the numbers. I dont make them up. We report to the department every year. As far as those claims fear, 33 Years Experience i can tell you we testified in front of congress do i think some of these are a scathing, absolutely. Do i think all of them are . No. Are some taken advantage of in the threshold system absolutely. Not all the families when the cases because they do not have the case to support, and again i want to make sure they all get the due process at the end of the day when they get a final order my job is to execute order so i certainly do not think that 100 is a scathing fear. Ive been to quite a mullah, el salvador and honduras. Again the nation of law we just cant open the doors to everybody in the world to come here. There are rules and if you look at let me speak generally firmament. We removed 490,000. We are removing about half of what we removed several years ago. Even though i might throw the match metrics out its like its not enough. When a is enough enough . We have to enforce the law. If people dont like the Immigration Law on the books that something you need to speak with your congressional representatives about but we are trying to execute a mission that makes sense. But all of my inputs make it in, certainly not. But basically making sure all the levels were criminals and some people say its not that serious. It depends which side of the misdemeanor you are on if you were the victim that makes a difference. So people enter the United States illegally for several it is a violation of law. Its not an administrative issue. On top of that, to commit another crime against a citizen in this country its a misdemeanor and Public Safety threat and a lot of times people dont think a dui is serious but i think differently. Its a Public Safety issue. What the secretary has done is giving us a set of rules to worklight to prioritize the worst of the worst first. The numbers speak for themselves. People can have opinions we implement this, and mistakes are made, but the numbers speak for themselves and the men and women are executing the mission peak was perfect. We have time for one more comment. What would you have asked if you could have . [laughter] i really commend what you do. Law enforcement is difficult work. Im from Washington College of law and also representing the Christian Coalition here. One of the issues that ive pledged to Law Enforcement is how the Community Feels about the work the Law Enforcement is doing. We see how much you are trying to do to help and even picking and choosing in order to implement the policies that have been given down to you. But the reality is for those of us that practice Immigration Law, when you go to the immigrant communities around the country and mentioned i see sometimes it is a shockwave. People are fearful of the officers, even those that dont have any immigration problems. But how im having trouble reconciling the effort you are making to do your job in a way that is humane and then how the Community Feels about the work you are doing and so my question is do you recognize that, and second, do you have any plans or policies to make sure that the communities you are trying to keep safe including immigrant communities understand the policies that you are implementing including the implementation of this policy so that they may feel it is directed to remove from those that might turn around thank you. Unfortunately, we dont have time for an answer. I want to encourage you to stay. Thank you, panelists, for the lively presentation. Please stay. The next speaker we are fortunate to have, so please stay put and that is the next show. [applause] congressional leaders met with president obama today at the white house to discuss a possible compromise on finding the government beyond october 1 and avoiding a potential government shutdown. There was also talk about additional funding to help fight the zika virus which theyve been trying to find an agreement on the last few months. I want to thank the leaders are coming down even though i know we are in the midst of the political season no one is thinking about elections but they need done, and i was encouraged by some of the constructive work thats being done right now. Number one, make sure the government stays open. Number two, to make sure that we are able to adequately fund our efforts to not only deal with the zika outbreaks, but also to come up with diagnostic tools and vaccines that will solve the problem for good. We also have an opportunity to discuss the possibility of disaster relief. I was in louisiana where obviously a lot of folks are still suffering the cleanup process and theres also significant other areas of the country that are suffering so we discussed the strategy is wheree we might be able to make a difference. We had an opportunity to put up some initiatives that have been moving forward on a bipartisan basis that have not yet been fully resolved but we still had a chance to make a difference on the criminal justice reform. I also gave everybody hear a briefing on my travels and some of the Strategic Issues that are posed there. So my hope is that we can make some modest progress in the areas that we agree and are working together. After i am more hopeful that we can get things done but i want to thank everybody for coming here and my hope is that by the Time Congress adjourns we will have an agreement in place and our funding will be taken care of. Congress will work on many of those items before the full recess. In the house we also expect a move to impeach. The congressman offered a privileged resolution this week to get the process going. We spoke with him for more details on the effort