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Meeting with judge barrett because i simply refuse to treat this process, a sham, illegitimate process as fair. One of the things i want to ask her is will she recuse herself. Because of any election issues that come before us. If she does not recuse herself, i fear the cuourt will be delegitimized. There is fanning the flames of division in a country thats already divided. We can slow it down, perhaps hours, maybe days at the most but we cant stop the outcome. While its easy to see this as just another Election Year squirmish, the stakes are monumental. They include a womans right to choose, who we are as a country when it comes to how we deal with immigration, democracy itself and as joe biden made clear earlier today, the health care of millions of americans caught in the middle of a pandemic. It doesnt matter what American People want. President trump sees a chance to fulfill his mission, steal away the vital protections of the aca from countless families that have come to rely on
Voters as well. Tonight though we will speak to three women about that. A few hours ago we had we heard this from the first lady. We are a country of hope, not a country of fear or weakness. We deserve a president with two results and not empty words and promises. The president of the United States, donald j. Trump. [cheers and applause] martha thats a first time weve seen Melania Trump at an actual rally over the course of this campaign. They played after that to go to North Carolina but that plan was scrapped due to weather that is spinning up of hurricanes laid out tonight through the east coast. The president did come back from a 33point jump in Economic Growth in q3 from july through september and that fueled some of his stops today. Its a move up, a big move up from a big move down during the covid economy. It is an increasingly tight race out there and florida is likely to be an early sign in the night of how things may go on tuesday. After that we may be watching pennsylvania f
Mr. Brooks i want to emphasize a few points about americas immigration situation. The first point is this, america has been far and away the most generous nation in World History when it comes to allowing foreigners to come onto our soil, when it comes to allowing foreigners to receive our most cherished right, citizenship. In that veen, i would like to share with you some information from the department of Homeland Security aufings of imdwration statistic, it covers data from 2011 going backwards. First, with respect to legal status, the numb of people we as a country allow to have permanent legal status in the United States of america, in 2011, was 1,062,000 foreigners in that one year were fwiven legal status who had not previously had legal permanent resident status. Lets go back 50 years to 1963. It was 306,260 that were given legal permanent resident status. I. E. , today, were even more generous than we were a half century ago. Today were giving three times as many legal permane
The panel is framed around what kind of pesksa what kind of progress blacks have made since the Civil Rights Movement and the enduring challenges and inequality that face africanamericans in the 21st century. The organizers have formulated two major questions for us to talk about. The first is, what historical and contemporary factors continue to make racial equality a contested and elusive concept in the 21st century and second, what kinds of knowledge can we mobilize to face the specific challenges of racial inequity. We have two or three dynamic speakers today and id like to introduce you to them before opening our conversation. Joining us is sara griffin, the william b at columbia and has also served as the director of the institute for research in africanamerican studies. Her most recent book is forth coming in september, harlem nocturne. Women. Politics during world war ii. Our second panelist is camille joseph, the founding direct oroff the center for race and and the author of