Ongoing security and managing crisis at our southwest border, publishing a final rule to implement the agreement. This year weve seen an unprecedented flow of family units primarily from Central America coming through our southwest border. During the first ten months, u. S. Border protection apprehended almost 495,000, and most crossed the border, three times more than any other fall record. May alone, 88630 family units arrive at our border, four times the last major surge. As ive testified and experts throughout the administration as well as Previous Administrations explained, the driving factor for this crisis is weakness in our system. They know if they cross illegally, arriving with a child theyll be release into the interior that could take five years or more. This gap comes from a 2015 review of an agreement more than two decades old by a court judge. This reinterpretation has generally forced the government to release families into the country after just 20 days and incentivizi
Tv visited capitol hill and asked democratic congresswoman tina of nevada about her reading list. Most important, i read News Analysis in academic journals but when i read for entertainment, its usually and i travel. Ive just come back from greece so i was reading by greek authors or about greek. I looked for something a bit different. This time, i read this book silence of the girls. An award winner, a british writer and its from the perspective of i ran a couple of mysteries that i set in greece, one was called murder and its written by a patriot whose name is jeffrey another one i read was a house on paradise street. This was a story of a family thats torn apart by the great civil war. Communist versus conservatives. Their families on different sides. That was written by sophia. Finally, kind of a beach book, nights of rain and start. Thats the story of a protagonist whose lives intersect at a great savanna. And another one is a college professor. How do you select the books you wil
My initial reaction was i didnt want to do it. At the same my coauthor felt the same way. Everyone does this now already. Soy supporters to go take all of the research and go look at the work for a week and let me know when you think. He came back and we discussed it we thought theres a book here. The book is the narrative. Its prologue to with going to follow in the next year. In the sense that if you look at this cover on donald trump. From day one, up until the present. Youre going to see the story about a name who has dominated press coverage light unlike any figure in american history. And who has received in return, the worst coverage of any man in history. Not just quantitatively which is a series of a studied but qualitative. Not just in the percent of negative coverage but in the tonality of it and you put it all together, and stunning to see what is happening. I think we are so much of it the week to start listening anymore. But if you look at this covera coverage, youll see
Many of you saw the news early many of you saw the news early on monday when the new York Police Department decided to fire the Police Officer involved in the death of eric gardner. This is what the police had to say on monday about that decision. [video clip] being a police is one of the hardest jobs in the world. That is not a statement to. Licit sympathy, it is a fact cops have to make choices, sometimes quickly every single day. Some are splitsecond, life or death choices. Oftentimes they are choices that will be thoroughly and repeatedly examined by those with much more time to think about them than the Police Officer had and those decisions are scrutinized and secondguessed both fairly and unfairly. The officer went to bed thinking he would make choices and take actions during a routine arrest that would lead to another persons death. An officers choices and actions even made under extreme pressure matter. It is unlikely mr. Gardner thought he was in such poor health that a brief
Campaign 2020. Watch our live coverage of the president ial candidates on the campaign trail and make up your own mind, cspans campaign 2020, youre an filtered view of politics. Welcome to the 16th annual roosevelt reading festival. My name is Kirsten Carter and im her head of the archives department. We are pleased to host such Wonderful Group of authors this year, one of our favorite events. If you enjoy this event and would like to support the library we encourage you to become a member and you can do that online anytime or by signing up at the table in the hallway today. Let me remind you how the festival works. We are going to have another speak now for 30 minutes followed by a 10 minute question and answer period and then i will walk the author out to the front of the Visitor Center to sign books and you can purchase the book in our new deal bookstore and meet the author and discuss the book even more. O today is Sandra Bolzenius teacher and historian. For two decades she lived a