Today we welcome chad wulf, the acting secretary of the department of Homeland Security, thank you for being with us this morning. Mister secretary the fyi 21 budget proposes 49. 7 billion, in neck discretionary funding. For the department of Homeland Security. While this is a cut of 750 million below the current year level, the budget also proposes transferring United States secret service to the treasury department. I want to be clear that absent any inactive law to affect such a transfer this subcommittee will continue to include funding, for the secret service and its bill when including funding for the secret service in the total the budget requests for fbi 21 is actually 1. 7 eight billion above the current year level there are some things the proposed budget which we will find strong bipartisan support, such as funding for the coast guard cutter there are also support support for proposals we should not expect to see funded in the house bill. Among those the expansion of detenti
[background sounds]. Good morning everyone. Welcome back to those of you who are here yesterday. We are going to get started. It is my pleasure to welcome all of you to our second day of the best focused on events and protections for migrant children. For those of you who were not here yesterday, experience education and directed at the emerging University Washington college of law for immigration. My pleasure to welcome all of you here to the law school. Also i welcome not only on behalf of our constitution, the University Center for lesson american and latina studies. As well as the American Writers Association and Planning Committee representatives. Thank you. [applause]. Thank you for all the hard work to make this event such a success. I know you all have very busy schedule so i appreciate your willingness to be here for it. Those you who were here yesterday, it series of panels beginning to unpack some of the challenges we are facing migrants be. Some of the factors across the wo
People handled . Just to give you a few numbers to think about as we start off, according to the un, there are 272 million migrants in the world, so were talking about people who have moved from country to country. That is a large number. 3. 5 of the global population. But another number more striking is 70 million displaced persons and if you think about that, we are living at a time where we see more people forced out of their lives and out of their homes, sometimes out of their countries than at any time in history, we see these people on the move. Over half of them, over half of the refugees that are in other countries are from three countries, syria, afghanistan and south suzanne. South sudan, which is also really striking. When you think about what this means for policy, obviously has to be policy for handling refugees, policy for migration, policy for immigration of people who are not refugees. The country still today, the at has the largest foreignborn population is the United
Well what is the problem . And when you start thinking about what is the problem, it goes to a lot of different directions. You have an issue of global migration, you have immigration and immigration policy. You have refugees and displaced persons, and you have the treatment and according to the un, there are 272 million migrants in the world, so you talk about people that have moved from country to country, that is a large number. There have been three and a half part of the global perception, but the bigger number is 70 million displaced persons, and if you think about, that we are living at a time when we see more people forced out of their lives and out of their homes. And you see these people on the move. Over half of the refugees that are in other countries are from three countries, syria afghanistan, and south sudan, which is also really striking. When you think about what this means for policies, then theres obviously policies for handling refugees, policies for migration, poli
For the international and adversity hosted this discussion. The topic of this discussion were about to have his immigration, finding solutions. And i think the first thing we have to do is say what is the problem exactly. And when you start thinking about what is the problem, it goes in a lot of different directions. You have an issue of global migration, you have immigration and immigration policy in the United States, refugee and displaced persons and you have the treatment of people and human rights and how are these people handle. Just to give you a few numbers to think about as we start off, according to the un there are 272 million migrants in the world so were talking about people who have moved from country to country, that is a large number. Three and half of the global population. But another number more striking is 70 million displaced person and if you think about that, we are living at a time where we see more people forced out of their lives and out of their homes, someti