Please call the role. [roll call] [roll call] thank you both. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I would like to welcome all of you here this evening for the special joint hearing hosted by the Human Rights Commission. I would like to welcome our human rights of commissioners. Thank you for joining us this evening, on behalf of my colleagues we are delighted to be cohosting this hearing with you. We look forward to a good, and open conversation this evening. We have some excellent speaker testimony that we are looking forward to gathering. We very much look forward to hearing from members of the community on the issue of the border crisis, our first order of business to are there any announcements . Thank you. Office of Civic Engagement and veterans affairs. To members of the public, this is special joint meeting at the San Francisco immigrant rights commandant commission on the Human Rights Commission cosponsored by yee and ronan. Please silence all cell phones so speakers are commiss
Street w. This new data and focus on the 200, we can make a difference. I think when people are ready for treatment and volunteer for treatment, that is key. I also think we need to recognize that one of our challenges on the streets that some people will refuse treatment. Some people in the most dire needs of treatment will refuse treatment. So we need to be there when people are ready to go into the services and meet them. When theyre ready. But we also need laws like the conservatorship law to provide people with the support for shorttime conservatorship to help them save their lives. These are lifesaving interventions. And that persistent compassion is what we have seen here and what weve come to expect from our director of Mental Health reform in. A few short months, hes transformed the way many of us think about caring for people experiencing the intersection of homelessness, serious Mental Illness and Substance Abuse disorders. This is a population, as youve heard of 4,000 peopl
And be seen as like part of it and the. Were sort of cast off fly over country but i just want to ask one thing about a point that is often asserted in connection with Political Attitudes and support for the f. T. Namely the idea that it reflects the communist area era socialization of order germans and even a kind of nostalgia for an easier time do you think thats true yeah definitely and i also think that germans werent good democrats in the fiftys they werent good democrats in the sixtys they had the economic wonder thats the tough one and thats how that went on until the seventys and so thats how they became democrats of because the u. S. Forced it upon them and then they had a good good experience with demarc democracy so its stuck sort of you know to put it in a nutshell but and that didnt and that didnt happen in eastern germany obviously they got all this money they got all this restructuring of infrastructure of streets and so forth but they didnt have the experience and they
Debate, of that list, what is the strongest factor . Strongest factor is President Trump himself, as well as mitch mcconnell. Men withoutwo support from those men, no gun control measure will move through the congress and get to the president s desk and be signed into law. A lot of this has to depend on how serious President Trump is when he says he supports and endorses background checks. We have heard in the past after the parkland shooting in florida, the president say that he supports background checks. Of course, as we know, that was anybacked up that by sort of action on capitol hill. It was uttered, but never followed up on. Instead, after strong lobbying on behalf of the nra, President Trump and his administration shifting shifted toward what they called was a hardening of schools really boosting and ramping up security of the Public School system. That became the focus rather than any background checks. It remains to be seen whether the president will put some teeth behind his
Mr. Cuccinelli good morning. Its a pleasure to be here with you today. Im ken cuccinelli, head of Immigration Services. And President Trump has once again delivered on his promise to the American People to enforce longstanding immigration law. Today, uscis, the agency i head as part of homeland security, has issued a rule that encourages and insurers selfreliance and selfsufficiency for those seeking to come to or to stay in the United States. Help immigrants find success as they seek opportunity here. Throughout our history, selfreliance has been a core principle in america. The virtues of perseverance, hard work, selfsufficiency laid the foundation of our nation will step it defined generations of immigrants seeking opportunity in the United States. Our current law, which is generations old, recognizes that some new arrivals to our country need the help of their family and community. It requires some of those who seek to live and remain in the United States to have a sponsor who will