How is everybody doing . Really appreciate the opportunity. Thank you fran for the kind introduction. Great to see you and also want to thank the council on foreign releases for the opportunity to be with you today and have an important discussion on the state of Border Security and immigration concerns, nationalry but also hopefully fran well have the opportunity to have conversation and dialogue on some of the other Homeland Security priorities and with the members here. I know that many of you have been following the crisis on our southwest border over the past year. And tracking really the growing regional challenge of irregular migration in the region. Not only has the situation had obvious implications for Border Security. But its led to really a significant humanitarian crisis as well as a Foreign Policy challenge in the United States and throughout the region. Id like to take the thog today a little bit of above the headlines and the daily news cycle and kind of look back at ch
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Secretary mcaleenan emailed his speech to press after he left with a note attached. And were going to baa to go back to the conference with a panel discussion, possible regional approaches to solving it. This is live coverage on cspan2. To send volunteers to texas to the two major detention facilities that are housing women with children, detaining women and children to help prepare the women for credible fear interviews and to do other work to assist the families. In our hemisphere and in particular, its examining one of the main things that what theyre looking at is this see third country issue whichbrings us to our panel. Because we thought it would be a Good Opportunity to hear from these experts with respect to the humanitarian and migration crisis that has been going on in Central America and the need for regional approaches. We have three experts who will give us different analysis to help address different parts of this problem and that is ive asked anthony fontez, an expert on
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This is one hour. Good afternoon, how is everybody good afternoon how is everybody doing. I really appreciate the opportunity thank you for the opportunity is great to see. You also want to thank council for Foreign Relations for the opportunity to be with you today and have an important discussion on the state of Homeland Security and immigration. Also to have a dialog and also on Homeland Security priorities with members. Here i know that many of you have been following crisis on our border last year and tracking the regular challenge of migration, not only has the situation obvious implications for Border Security but its lead to significant humanitarian crisis as well as a Foreign Policy challenge in the United States and throughout the region. I like to take the dialog today a little bit above the headlines and into the daily news cycle and look back the challenges over the last ten months or so, in our efforts to address them especially focused on the last three to four months du