Cincinnati, toledo, buffalo, and all across the midwest. There are literally almost a dozen. Its exciting work and its important work and its really focussed on kind of national and regional and local economic policy. Great. Im going to follow up with you again, steve, for a minute. Director rodriguez said that absent federal action, congressional action, we cannot do it all. So, with employmentbased visas, you cant create them or other types of visas. What strategies do you use to overcome those types of challenges . Sure. Make no mistake that the biggest economic boost would be a more sense kal and higher performing federal immigration policy that works for local economies. And maybe even as localized, clearly the challenges that we face in detroit are very different than long beach or new york city. And our skill sets and needs are very different. And probably one size fit all policy might not work as well, but absent that, were trying to do everything we can to take advantage of th
Regional and local economic policy. Great. Im going to follow up with you again, steve, for a minute. Director rodriguez said that absent federal action, congressional action, we cannot do it all. So, with employmentbased visas, you cant create them or other types of visas. What strategies do you use to overcome those types of challenges . Sure. Make no mistake that the biggest economic boost would be a more sense kal and higher performing federal immigration policy that works for local economies. And maybe even as localized, clearly the challenges that we face in detroit are very different than long beach or new york city. And our skill sets and needs are very different. And probably one size fit all policy might not work as well, but absent that, were trying to do everything we can to take advantage of the opportunities that we have. And frankly, a lot of that work would repair us well if some kind of Immigration Reform policy was passed. So what do we do . One is i mentioned Interna
Rapidly right now is an Amazing Community organizing infrastructure that got my boss elected, that got an incredible city council elected and thats been really savvy about moving the politics in a way where we can move things a lot more quickly than we have even in the past. And i think Something Like executive action where you have Community Organizations with memberships that are going to be interacting with people about this, its an opportunity to capitalize on that for membership growth, for, again, building the legal key political power to then move for a larger scale Immigration Reform and really strengthening that. Thats unfortunately not my job anymore but i do think its a critical part of this whole equation is how we take the Service Delivery and move it into organizing and power building. Steve . I just want to build on that. I hope that as we move whether its administrative reform or congressional action, that the country has gotten more sophisticated about integration. I k
Deferred action and in arizona versus United States, the Supreme Court relied upon the broad discretion exercised by the federal immigration officials including, quote, whether it makes sense to remove all, and strike down all of arizonas sweeping Immigration Law. Because it could result in harassment of sole aliens, thats their term for example, a veteran, a College Student or someone assisting in a criminal investigation, should not be removed, the law, quote violates of the the principle that the removal process is entrusted at the federal government. The idea that the enforcement efforts should be focused on high priority targets. And immigration context have been issued as far back as 1976 under president george w. Bush the Customs Enforcement i. C. E. Reafirmedeprrl prosecutorial discretion to use discretion in identifying responding to healthrelated cases. Indeed 15 years ago democratic and republican members of congress joined together to the then attorney general urging her to
Very good, and im proud of it. It supports d. H. S. s frontline personnel and essential Security Operations and maintains fiscal discipline. Specifically for customs and Border Protection, this agreement adds 42 million above the request to ensure assure 24 7 surveillance of all land, sea and air approaches. It increases air and marine flight hours from 74,000 to 95,000 per year. This agreement fully funds 23,775 Border Patrol officers to reduce wait times of passengers arriving at the Nations International airports without resorting to burdensome user fees as proposed by the president. Funds are included for 21,370 Border Patrol agents the highest Operational Force in d. H. S. History. Funds for Tactical Communications equipment and Border Security technology are increased by 20 million above the request. Substantial increases are included for targeting systems and Data Analysis to support counterterrorism efforts. For immigration and Customs Enforcement, custody and deportation are i