There ought to be a position where you tell people, even confidentially, what you are doing, and make sure there is responsible oversight. I said that congress has been in adequate. Yemen and a call from there is no evidence that the person is connected to a conspiracy, why would the nsa look at Something Like this . If you do and you are in contact with someone, you know, frankly, your nextdoor neighbor or your girlfriend may be looked at to determine if there is some kind of cell being form that can put people in the United States in danger. Inaction, itess has been intentional. No one wanted to dive deep into the agency and it would have made them a lot of enemies. Edward snowden has given an opportunity for Congress People to have a political shield and go to oversight without seeing any political retribution. Thomas jefferson said that, when the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. I want to reinforce that. If we fea
I dont think it is very effective because it is not sbet greated, and you have to work with private and Public Sector benefits and support, getting them to Work Together, even getting their rules to Work Together on behalf of your clients is chappinging. Want to hit something, mrs. Reynolds, you just said. There are generations of poverty, and it becomes very difficult to change that dynamic. When there is ly a crisis, and we dont stay. The cries we cant do transportation, food or health care, but we can do housing. Then we walk away. We go back when there is an tective service issue, and then we walk away. The 1 of all the entitlement, benefit spending less than 10 of federal spending on any of those programs goes to individuals who could in fact work. We focus on that 9 , talking about how we should do it. We need to realize that we have a population that is going to need generations of support and a whole new dynamic of what it means to be a working household and lifted out of pover
And i want to thank everyone for coming today. My name is jamie horwitz, member of the National Press club and the newsmaker committee. On behalf of the club and committee, i want to thank you for joining us for this very special newsmaker, an unprecedented newsmaker. We will hear from two federal Immigration Judges this morning. Before i introduce our guest, i want to take care of a little housekeeping. We have usual rules. For this particular newsmaker we have unusual rules. To questions each. Members of the press club and any credentialed journalists may ask questions. You identify yourself and any News Organization and will recognize you if you have a question. I shouldrules say that our guests, although both are federal judges, they are here in the capacity as leaders of the National Association of Immigration Judges, affiliate of the National Federation of affiliates and technical engineers, the union that represents not just Immigration Judges but other judges like administrativ
You to be lulled into supporting, gutting this while we pay 614 billion in corporate welfare. I do have a question for you, ms. Reynolds, about the mind set of the individuals. Dont you think we have to change the mind set of the community too . An example i come up with. If you run into a client, for example, who found themselves in the county jail because they had a bar fight and when they come out, dont we have to get the Business Community to hire people who might have a public record, for example . We in fort worth have been very fortunate to work with the Business Community. We have developed a living wage tool kit at our organization. Everybody we Catholic Charities fort worth makes a living wage. Several of our local businesses have made a choice. Ok. I dont have 10 minutes like the chairman did. Its not changing the individual minds. The community has to embrace it too. Otherwise you have permanent unemployment. Im so happy that people get Educational Opportunity through your