Additional economic sanctions on russia. This is just over two hours. Go. The committee will come to order. Twant to welcome our panelists and thank them for taking time co to or to share their perspective with committee on developments in ukraine, which appear only slightly less ominous than they did in act one of this crisis. Now, were in the beginning of t act twhao with the successful election of a president by the ukrainian people, intion of pren internationally certifie certifd elections, which is a victory for ukrainians struggle for freedom. Divisions between east and west, significantly president Petro Poroshenko won districts from one end of ukraine to the other. It seems clear that with russias violation of sovereignty, it unified ukrainians better than before. The challenges president poroshenko has are daunting. He must rebuild an economy weakened by the previous president s corruption. While countering prudent in the east. We are committed to working with , tonew governme
Reasons. Laces we cannot deport people to, like cuba, for example. And our job is not to house these people, to house people strictly for criminal violations. That is our role. So if they have completed their senses through the u. S. Their sentences through the u. S. Criminal justice system, there is not much we can do. They focused on people who committed recent crimes. Unfortunately we are tight on time. We have been speaking with alan gomez from usa today. That is all the time we have today on washington journal. Join us tomorrow at 7 00 a. M. Eastern now we will head to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee taking a look at the recent elections in ukraine and its current impact on Foreign Relations in the country. Good morning. This hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. I want to welcome our panelists and thank them for taking time, for sharing their perspective on developments in the ukraine, which appear only slightly less ominous than they did in
Thanks to our colleagues and witnesses for working with the staff to enable us to put this hearing together fairly quickly. The purpose as you know is to examine 1691 the Border Patrol act of 2014 introduced by senator tester and mccain and this bill would make the badly needed reforms to the system of the Border Patrol for discourtesy too complicated and difficult to manage. I want to talk about what is happening currently along the borders over the past few years have seen a surge in the unauthorized migration from Central America which is nearing record highs and an unprecedented number of people operating at the border are unaccompanied children. Some are as young as ten years of age. They appropriately require that the children be treated differently than other migrants. They must be transferred department of health and Human Services and there are strict rules about their care. He announced he was creating a task force and devoting Additional Resources to coordinate the care. Sin