The Senate Judiciary hearing is one hour 45 minutes. Good morning. We will wait a minute to start but i want to complement for bringing this up to me we will learn a lot today about the social media front. And what we can do to help them better inform parents. So hes on his way i will give an opening statement. That we havent been in a while and after a visit to the border it will give a better idea what we can do legislatively to provide those on the front lines of the chaotic situation on the border and we have a Bipartisan Group and trying to find a solution and i know the folks in texas are struggling mightily. Thank you very much. I will tell you what we will go ahead and get started. Please raise your right hand. Is a testimony the truth the whole truth so help you god . Okay. Welcome mister stone. On the 13th judicial circuit we are proud of your work welcome to washington. Thank you for having me mister chairman. I understand Ranking Member feinstein will not be here but i want
Internet activity on nonu. S. Citizens to gather intelligence. It runs 40 minutes. Good morning, everybody. Ill give you a quick welcome and a brief introduction of our first speaker. Im mike frank and im the director here of the wauds Program Office for the hoover institution. And welcome to sunrise or sunset, the future of section 702 the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. Our first speaker will be john villasenor, who is member here at the institution. He wears a number of hats. Hes a professor at ucla where he olds appointments in schools of engineering, public affair, and governance. Hes also a visiting professor in the ucla school ofl law. He focuses on intersection of technology, policy, business law, and the ramifications of key technological trends and congress. He testified before congress, and hes also a member of the council of Foreign Relations where, and on cyber security. John is going to go through the basics of section 702 and sort of like a 101 introduction to it,
Get our hands around what the problem is and what we can do about it. The problem generates of course with the trafficker. There are three entities involved in trafficking. The trafficker. I call them the slave master because thats what it is. It is modern day slavery in its worst form especially when it comes to children. Then we have on the other end, the victim. Of course, that is a victim, not a child prostitute and Society Needs to understand and especially Law Enforcement that when they arrest a child for child prostitution, they should not be arrested for child prostitution, they should be taken to a shelter where they are treated as a victim of criminal conduct. Because thats what they are. But we got the real issues to deal with that society has missed is the person in the middle. And that is the demand. There is a demand for trafficking in the United States. The days of boys being boys is going to be over in the United States. They are going to be treated like criminals and b
Because of our location and because of our demographics. We have been working on this issue for a long time, trying to get our hands around what the problem is and what we can do about it. The problem generates of course with the trafficker. There are three entities involved in trafficking. The trafficker. I call them the slave master because thats what it is. It is modern day slavery in its worst form especially when it comes to children. Then we have on the other end, the victim. Of course, that is a victim, not a child prostitute and Society Needs to understand and especially Law Enforcement that when they arrest a child for child prostitution, they should not be arrested for child prostitution, they should be taken to a shelter where they are treated as a victim of criminal conduct. Because thats what they are. But we got the real issues to deal with that society has missed is the person in the middle. And that is the demand. There is a demand for trafficking in the United States.
So the group homes really become targeted very specifically by pimps. They know where the group homes are and they will go and recruit specifically there, and sometimes theyll get other girls to do that. The other place where girls are recruited are in juvenile Detention Centers where girls recruit each other. So given we know all of this information, we absolutely can prevent this from happening. But we do have to fundamentally change parts of the Child Welfare system in order to do it. Congressman reichert, i want to congratulate you on the passage of your legislation preventing the sex trafficking and strengthening families act. You talked about that legislation. I i wonder if there are any other plans in the committee for expanding on the amazing work you were all able to do. Well, ive moved on from the chairmanship of that committee to the tax committee. So, i so what im going to [laughter] ill be the chairman of the revenue subcommittee on ways and means, but charles bustamonte a