I want to thank the witnesses for taking the time for your thoughtful testimony. I want to thank the audience members. Im not sure why you are not over on the house side. It must be paid staff. I appreciate everyone coming here. The hearing title is unprecedented migration at the southern border, the year in review. I would like to start with the decade in review. I refer everybody to my chart. This is a chart i have been updating for the last 34 years. As long as you have been on the committee. It is important to lay out what the history has been. Certainly from my standpoint. Some key policy changes. I would argue they contributed to what i consider an ongoing crisis even though we have made some process progress. That chart reflects all minors and people coming to this country as family units. Earlier versions only focused on Central American children and family members. Initially, we had 3000, 4000 unaccompanied children. We werent even keeping track of families because it wasnt a
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Right now. Well take more of yesterday today that is for sure. Welcome to fbn am and good morning im cheryl casone. Hey cheryl good morning everybody. Im lauren simonetti. Yeah well it is a great morning for your money investors gobbled up stocks yesterday. Also major indices were set to open at record high this is morning right now were a little bit to the downside. Back to change, though, the dow is down 12 s p up one and three quarters nasdaq down one and three quarters but the dow could if things turnaround hit a 100th record close today under President Trump. Thats unbelievable. Records indeed set yesterday, the s p 500 and nasdaq both hitting all time high as you can see on this screen. If youre keeping track, with the s p had its 24th record close of the year. The nasdaq had it 19th. All of these new highs are under President Trump. That tech heavy nasdaq led the way with 114th record close that was powered by technologying toes trade optimism there and s p is 10 4, dow hitting
The News Conference was held in the east room of the white house. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States and the president of the republic of turkey. President trump thank you very much. Please. Begin by welcoming the first lady with us today and the first lady of turkey. Thank you very much for being here. It is a great honor to have you. We had a very productive meeting. Before we start, i would like to think president erdogan for who was in detainee detention. I appreciate that verythat was. He will becoming back at some point in the nottoodistant future. Thats very good news for the United States and turkey. Turkey is a great nato ally. Our economic relationship is tremendous. It continues to expand and grow. They are essential to ensuring prosperity and promise for our citizens. Over the course of the day, we had a frank and productive conversation on important topics. Among those topics, we discussed the situation in syria. Last month, i had mike pompeo with us.
And how to insist assessed asssist Law Enforcement at the border. This is just under two hours. I want to thank the witnesses for taking the time for your thoughtful testimony. I want to thank the audience members. It must be paid staff. Everyone coming here. I would like to start with the decade in review. I refer everybody to my chart. This is a chart i have been updating for the last 34 years. It is important to lay out what the history has been. Certainly from my standpoint. Some key policy changes. They contributed to what i consider an ongoing crisis even though we have made some process progress. That chart reflects all minors and people coming to this country as family units. Focused onsions only Central American children and family members. 3000, 4000we had unaccompanied children. We werent even keeping track of families because it wasnt a problem. Was a similar moment. It was the issuance of the daca memorandum. Traffickersby human to help incentivize people. They would tell