Im the provost at the university of tennessee at martin and tiff pleasure of hosting this session, shared history, americans of hispanic and african decent. Southern festival books remains completely free thanks to Strong Community support f youd like to donate to support the festival, you can do so on site at the Festival Headquarters or online via the humanitys tennessee website. You can purchase copies of the books that will be discussing today at the books sales area which is up on the Memorial Plaza and after the session both of our authors will be signing books at the signing tent. Our session today is going to focus on two books, dr. Kerry gibsons book el norte, epic and forgotten story of hispanic north america and Kristina Coles american founders how people after african decent established freedom in the new world. In just a minute we will hear from both of the authors and after that questions from the audience. Dr. Carry gibson grew up in United States and graduated from the
And thats something we really cant take for granted. The festival begins on individual donations to keep going into say free and you can donate at any level via the southern festival of books through their facebook page. The southern festival of books app. This weekend in person at vessel headquarters. See mac i want to encourage everyone to visit humanities labor literary website. There are wonderful reviews there. You can also sign up for a weekly newsletter information about upcoming author events. And also a great way to be a part of the literary community. In tennessee. Finally, after our session jason will be signing books at the signing tent on the plaza. And plaza. And copies of the books are for sale at the sales area and a portion of the proceeds directly benefits the festival. Enough announcements it is my delight to introduce jason depaul. I could talk for a long while about his decades of extraordinary writing about poverty and immigration among other publications in the N
This hearing will come to order. I would like to welcome our witnesses. Hearing, thethis unprecedented migration at the u. S. Southern border, subtitle, what is required to improve conditions . I think that is incredibly important that we concentrate on what can we do to improve conditions, Continuous Improvement . I have a manufacturing background. That is what we seek to do. Thatl say at the onset nobody, nobody is satisfied with conditions on the border. Nobody is. This is unprecedented what is happening on the border. It is overwhelming. It is out of control. I was talking to the commissioner, the acting commissioner before the hearing, and mentioned how former dhs secretary jeh johnson was on msnbc couple months ago i talked about how when he came to the office, if apprehensions for the day were under i thousand, it was not too bad a day. If there was over 1000, he knew he would have a really bad day. The fact of the matter is in may, the average daily number of apprehensions on p
General. This is just under two hours. This hearing will come to order. I would like to welcome our witnesses. The title of this hearing, the unprecedented migration at the u. S. Southern border, subtitle, what is required to improve conditions . I think that is incredibly important that we concentrate on what can we do to improve conditions, Continuous Improvement . I have a manufacturing background. That is what we seek to do. I will say at the onset that nobody, nobody is satisfied with conditions on the border. Nobody is. This is unprecedented what is happening on the border. It is overwhelming. It is out of control. I was talking to the commissioner, the acting commissioner before the hearing, and mentioned how former dhs secretary jeh johnson was on msnbc couple months ago i talked and he talked about how when he came to the office, if apprehensions for the day were under a thousand, it was not too bad a day. If there was over 1000, he knew he would have a really bad day. The fac
It was also testimony from the Homeland Security departments acting inspector general. This is just under two hours. Good morning. This hearing will come to order. This hearing will come to order. I would like to welcome our witnesses. The title of this hearing, the unprecedented migration at the u. S. Southern border, subtitle, what is required to improve conditions . I think that is incredibly important that we concentrate on what can we do to improve conditions, Continuous Improvement . I have nobody is satisfied with the conditions on the border. This is unprecedented what is happening on the border. It is overwhelming. It is out of control. I was talking to the commissioner, the acting commissioner before the hearing, and mentioned how former dhs secretary jeh johnson was on msnbc couple months ago i talked and he talked about how when he came to the office, if apprehensions for the day were under a thousand, it was not too bad a day. If there was over 1000, he knew he would have