Hello, ben. Great to be with you. Thank you for all your efforts. What an incredible four years on fentanyl, inc. Lets dive right in. My interest in this is that i come from New Hampshire and i started the Bipartisan Task force on Opioid Epidemic. We got 100 members of congress, half publican, half democrat working together and we have been hit very hard in our state. 471 deaths last year but the mix of those is really changing. Its been to know but, as you write about in a book, its fun to know mixed with cocaine or fentanyl mixed with methamphetamines and i want to start off with the big picture of what got you into this . What gave you the incentive to spend four years of your life in this deep dive and how did you keep going with it . I had a friend who died from that in all in 20104 people were much talking about it before i knew what it was but it wasnt until about four years ago i was a music journalist primarily and i was doing a report and why so many people were dying at rave
Around the world and trying to figure out why young man get attracted. Thank you very much. I would start off with what was the impetus for this book . Like the rest of the world i observed National Terrorist attack in paris organized by a few young men who had grown up in europe mostly belgium and france and turned against europe and european men decided they wanted to join a foreign enemy and attack their own hometown so 500 people and i saw this but i never thought about jihadist or violence before but i just saw these young guys and i thought they grew up and not very different from me newcomers and secondgeneration european. In and out of criminal lifestyles and have seen their friends go through drama. And very much people i could have grown up with but then they wind up in this place i have a hard time understanding so i wanted to know i saw a lot of emotion and frustration from all sorts of different backgrounds and i wanted to write a book that would explain what we might lear
Lawsuits in federal courts . Our members are certainly those volved in all of cases. One thing that weve seen in the Trump Administration is that the mpact on immigration is no loppinger isolated to a certain small set of policy objectives or goals. Really the whole entire mmigration system has seen a real shift in how immigration aw and policy is implemented, the intentions of the system i think have all been sort of challenged. Them members are all of really are actively involved in figuring out what is the policy currently. Nistration theyre actively involved in efforts to try to get the policy the more aligned with needs of the United States and the families who are here in country. Its been a full bore effort. Our topic for today on the washington journal is and campaign 2020. Ot a single democratic candidate says that the current immigration system is working. President trump often calms it a immigration system. If you were asked to fix the start . Where would you guest people ha
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As we continue our discussion on immigration this morning we come back to our desk executive director of the American Immigration lawyers association. Remind viewers what the and what you do. The association is 15,000 over theon lawyers all country who do immigration of stripes. And they represent people in every conceivable kind of case in the system. Tion everything from asylum to nobel prize winners. Really its a lot of people all over the country doing a lot different but important work. The casesed about all surrounding the Trump Administrations policies. O you get involved in those lawsuits in federal courts . Our members are certainly those volved in all of cases. One thing that weve seen in the Trump Administration is that the mpact on immigration is no loppinger isolated to a certain small set of policy objectives or goals. Really the whole entire mmigration system has seen a real shift in how immigration aw and policy is implemented, the intentions of the system i think have