Welcome to American Historical Association congressional briefing on immigration along the southwestern and and southern border of United States. These often get conflated as we just talking about in ways that are not necessarily productive, even though weve done it ourselves. Im jim glassman, the executive director of the american historical. Because this program been on covid induced hiatus for three years, id like to quickly provide at least a little of context for what well be doing this morning, as many of you know, are obsessed with context, which is why were here. The hhs congressional briefings date back to 2005, provide staff, journalists and others in the policy community with the historical background necessary to understand the context of current legislative concerns. The program rests on the premise that has a history and that anyone involved in influencing policies, decisions of any kind, whether in corporate world, government nonprofit world, influencing and decisions of
Some reaction also coming up. Pope francis holds a mass and buddhist majority me and mark tens of thousands turned out for that he calls on the people there to embrace peace and reconciliation. And tackling migration the European Union and the African Union get together to work out how to deal with the flow of migrants from africa to europe. Im brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show u. S. President donald trump says he will handle the latest list of missile test by north korea is claiming its twenty has launched this year is a new type of the songs on experts believe it could be capable of hitting any city in the united states. That. North korea claims it has become a Nuclear Power after a lull of over two months it has again fired an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile one that flew at a much higher altitude then past launches before landing in the sea of japan. State media and now as the news they said the countrys leader kim jong un declared with pride that now we have finally
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Whats leading the day are commodity related shares. Crude oil rebound, material stocks being led higher by c. F. Industries, which got positive commentary. All that is helping sustain some of the gains were seeing in stocks. But to the point that scarlet was making about the tight trading range today. This is the range today, just over five points, 5. 29, to be exact, the tightest trading range weve seen all year. The average is about 13 points to give you perspective here. Indeed its a quiet day, especially given a very tightrange day especially given the fact we have the jobs report. Its also reflected in the volatility index. You see the runup that we had and the collapse essentially in the vix. We keep getting awfully close to that, 10. 5 is where the vix is today. I mentioned materials, two of the other materials stocks doing well today are dow and dupont because they have yet another step toward their deal being completed. A Brazilian Competition Authority has recommended approva