Texas officials discuss Border Security and unaccompanied immigrant children. On newsmakers, rajiv shah discusses ebola, and u. S. Foreign aid. Newsmakers on cspan. Next, a debate on what to do with undocumented immigrant children known as dreamers. It is the Texas Tribune festival in austin. This is an hour and 10 minutes. Good afternoon. Thank you for being here today. Im manny fernandez. Im the Houston Bureau chief for the new york times. And on behalf of the Texas Tribune, im very happy to welcome everyone to the Fourth Annual Texas Tribune festival and to our panel today, entitled what to do with the dreamers. Our panelists are george baldor, a dallas businessman who started a website supporting the texas d. R. E. A. M. Act, also known as hb 1403. The website is keephb1403. Com. Veronica escobar [applause] the county judge of el paso county. She become the top elected official in texas this sixth largest county in texass six largest county in 2011. We also have gabby pacheco, Prog
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Good afternoon. Thank you for being here today. Im manny fernandez. Im the Houston Bureau chief for the new york times. And on behalf of the Texas Tribune, im very happy to welcome everyone to the Fourth Annual Texas Tribune festival and to our panel today, entitled what to do with the dreamers. Our panelists are george baldor, a dallas businessman who started a website supporting the texas d. R. E. A. M. Act, also known as hb 1403. The website is keephb1403. Com. Veronica escobar [applause] the county judge of el paso county. She become the top elected official there in 2011. We also have gabby pacheco, Program Director of a National College Scholarship Fund for undocumented students called the dream. Us. Last april, she became the first undocumented latina to testify before congress. [applause] we also have with us jerry patterson, the texas land commissioner. Hes a former state senator who helped the Texas Republican Party adopt a more moderate position on immigration in its 2012 of
On the recent decline in gas, prices and other energy issues. And well take your calls and join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Next. A discussion about what to do about undocumented youth coming into the United States. Well hear from a Tea Party Member ofa democratic congress, a county judge, a texas land commissioner, and a the firstwas undocumented latina to testify before congress. This discussion was part of the annual Texas Tribune festival at university of texas at austin. Its an hour and 10 minutes. Good afternoon. Today. Ou for being here im manny fernandez. Im the Houston Bureau chief for the new york times. Behalf of the Texas Tribune, im very happy to to the fourthne annual Texas Tribune festival today, entitled what to do with the dreamers. Panelists are george baldor, a dallas businessman who started a website supporting the texas act, also known as hb1403. Is keephb1403. Com. Veronica escobar [applause] the county judge of el paso county. Top electedhe official
Are doing training with one of the challenges is the efforts have not been wellintegrated or catalogued. So its hard for a lot of people to really get their hands around all of the activities that are ongoing. I think your point is absolutely valid and that we do need to make sure that we provide these resources and this is something that we are good at. But really to do this effectively they probably are going to have to really encourage a lot more International Leadership than we have seen today. Thank you for that comment. I think it really helps concentrate the will of the institution to step forward into this type type of training. Its a fairly major effort of foot involves in the institute for mr. Armstrong himself is one of the board of trustees to put a Major Program together related to the training, training the trainers and training individuals and this is actually going to get started in a major way tonight and already has senior level institutional support. The real questio