For and in a way that is not argumentative but i find highly per was persuasive he makes a strong case and along the way using his incredible stretchtive powers and descriptive powers and second to none in being able to in a concise way describe a scene, a room, a group of people, he carries you along through this own travels, along the southern border and borders around the world, and along the way i believe he makes a strong case for his ideas of how we should deal withour borders. Peter, this is not the first book that you have written and in a moment well enumerate the other books if you have within d have opportunity articles and radio programs, short form news and long form talk shows. Youre quite literate on these matters. And let me begin by talking about some of the Current Issues related to immigration. For example, just a week or two ago, a nurse who turned whistleblower at an i. C. E. Detention center in georgia went public with charges that a medical doctor there had perfo
To help these communities. This is an hour 20 minutes. Is this on . Can you hear me . Excellent. Welcome back. While youre all walking in and settling down thank you. I just wanted to say a couple words about what we do here at georgetown in this field before i welcome my panel and introduce everybody. Im andy. I direct the asylum films here. We represent Asylum Seekers in deportation hearings. Actually handle a case from beginning to end for Asylum Seekers all over the world. My colleague is here, as well, who i work with. Dina, is dina here . May be at some point. We have three lauries each semester and 12 students. The clinic has been doing this for, i guess, 24 years. I think phil started the asylum part of this in 1995. We also have courses on immigration and refugee law as well as we started last year to send volunteers to texas, to the two major detention facilities that are housing women with children, detaining women and children, to help prepare the women for credible fear in
Everybody. Im andy schoen holtz. Our students represent Asylum Seekers and deportation hearings. And actually handle a case from beginning to end for Asylum Seekers all over the world. My colleague pfizer saed is well and dina sharouk may be here. We have three lawyers each semester, 12 students, the clinic has been doing this for i guess 24 years. I think phil started the asylum part of this in 1995. We also have courses on immigration and refugee law as well as we started last year to send volunteers to texas to the two major detention facilities that are housing women with children, detaining women and children to help prepare the women for a credible fear interviews and to do other work to assist the families. And we are sending two groups again, 14 volunteers, we went to break and spring break down there, thanks to a georgetown alum who has funded that travel and we have a human rights bracket couple that has engaged on these issues for years. This year its looking at the root cau
Secretary mcaleenan emailed his speech to press after he left with a note attached. And were going to baa to go back to the conference with a panel discussion, possible regional approaches to solving it. This is live coverage on cspan2. To send volunteers to texas to the two major detention facilities that are housing women with children, detaining women and children to help prepare the women for credible fear interviews and to do other work to assist the families. In our hemisphere and in particular, its examining one of the main things that what theyre looking at is this see third country issue whichbrings us to our panel. Because we thought it would be a Good Opportunity to hear from these experts with respect to the humanitarian and migration crisis that has been going on in Central America and the need for regional approaches. We have three experts who will give us different analysis to help address different parts of this problem and that is ive asked anthony fontez, an expert on
Over to the u. N. Security council in new york there you can see mark who of course is the emergencies change for the u. N. Hes giving a briefing hes giving a briefing on the various emergencies around the world i believe hes talking about syria right now and we will be will listen a little bit to that but were also waiting to hear the very latest from the Security Council as to the situation in yemen but lets just listen to what he has to say about syria the displaced people compromising their ability to provide education for children. On 22 oldest following advances in many areas of northern hammer in southern italy the syrian authorities announced again the opening of the crossing point for civilians wishing to leave the area we understand the syrian authorities of station buses in the area and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent has been asked to prepare for possible population movements there are 2 shelters identified in iran to see if people with a capacity of 150 families the u. N. And