Own firsthand experience even something as basic as emergency radios working can still be a problem in a terror attack. I can tell you as a former commander of the s. W. A. T. Team and we would do operations in and around the hilly areas of the city which are most of the city, you have problems. Its tough to communicate. That is the achilles heel for any kind of operations. But not all challenges are technical. Theres also the issue of how to control the soft targets like a crowd leaving a big events. When youre in a situation where youre dealing with a large group of people, its more difficult. Reporter beefing up security after manchester events . We do threat assessments an outline events. Reporter there are challenges. For example, shortly after donald trump became president , San Francisco police opted out of the Fbi Joint Terrorism Task force. There were some concerns from various members in the community on our policies and our participation. Reporter what was the concern . Firs
Johnson of wisconsin. This meeting will come to order. I want to thank the witnesses for taking time for your thoughtful testimony. I think it will be pretty interesting description of a problem that i think plagues so many inner cities, and, from my standpoint, really one of the contributing factors of this is one of the Top Priorities of this committee is securing our borders. This is what, i think 25th, 25th hearing on some aspect of border security. Now the title of the hearing, border and security, the rise of ms13, other Transnational Criminal Organizations. Reading testimony well focus a lot on ms13 which is obviously in the news today. And what the witnesses tell the stories but it is kind of interesting the history of ms13, originally formed out of immigrants coming from el salavador, the war there, in california, Southern California area and then based on problems, those members being deported to Central America. The organizations grew and thrived in Central America. Now were
Interesting description of a problem that i think plagues so many inner cities and from my standpoint really one of the contributing factors of this is one of the Top Priorities of this committee is securing our borders. This is what i think our 25th . 25th hearing on some aspect of border security. Now, the title of the hearing was border and security the rise of ms13 and other Transnational Criminal Organizations. Reading through the testimony, it looks like were going to be focusing an awful lot on ms13 which is obviously in the news today. And ill let the witnesses tell the stories, but it is kind of interesting the history of ms13. Originally formed out of immigrants coming from el salvador, the war there in california, Southern California area. And then based on problems, those members being deported to Central America, the organizations grew and tliefd in Central America, now were seeing them come back sometimes in the form of unaccompanied children. I did send a letter yesterda
Interesting description of a problem that i think plagues so many inner cities and from my standpoint really one of the contributing factors of this is one of the Top Priorities of this committee is securing our borders. This is what i think our 25th . 25th hearing on some aspect of border security. Now, the title of the hearing was border and security the rise of ms13 and other Transnational Criminal Organizations. Reading through the testimony, it looks like were going to be focusing an awful lot on ms13 which is obviously in the news today. And ill let the witnesses tell the stories, but it is kind of interesting the history of ms13. Originally formed out of immigrants coming from el salvador, the war there in california, Southern California area. And then based on problems, those members being deported to Central America, the organizations grew and tliefd in Central America, now were seeing them come back sometimes in the form of unaccompanied children. I did send a letter yesterda
Senator sanders let me take the opportunity to introduce my family. Wife, my son, and my brother at heart. My granddaughter and my grandson. Ok. Everyone sits. Everyone sit. Thank you so much for coming. And by the way, i am delighted to be here with the congressman from arizona. I think all of you know that raul has been, throughout his political life, one of the leaders in congress in the fight for immigrant justice, in the fight for racial justice, and the fight for economic justice, and social justice. Thank you so much for what you have done for our country. [applause] let me say a few words and we will get the panel going. I am running for president because the truth is, given the many crises that we face as a nation it is just too late for establishment politics and establishment economics. We need real change, today. [applause] and it is not credible to me that we could have candidates that take millions of dollars from wall street and other special interests and tell us that t