This hearing will come to order i would first say the witnesses for taking the time for your thoughtful testimony and how i say the audience members. Im not sure why youe are not e house i but we really apprecia appreciate, you must been paid staff. But i appreciate everybody coming here. This is from my standpoint, the hearing title is an president migration at the southern border being in review. But what id like to do is to actually start with a decade in review. For everybody to iconic, is the chart that i have been really updating are probably the last three or four years. As you can on the committee. Important to lay out what the history news men. Key moments and policy changes, then i would certainly argue contributed to what you consider an ongoing prices even though they made some progress. But that chart reflects all minors and people coming to this country as family units. Earlier versions only focused on sinful market children and family members. So initially, and 2009 to 1
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 them, the u. S. Has changed your policy. That certainly started something. To 2015. Ard forward 2014 was the year when president obama very accurately described a humanitarian crisis at the border. 137,000 unaccompa
Deal brings it. The indian Prime Minister consoles his countrys top scientists after they lose contact with Ambition Mission to the moon. Im leah harding in doha with sports. Fans pay tribute to the pioneering former South African rugby player Chester Williams after he dies at the age of 49. For many, he will always be the hero will lead zimbabwe to freedom from white minority rule. Others regard him as a corrupt dictator who led the country to economic disaster. Robert mcdonald lays death at the age of 95 is seen across the world. Also harsh criticism, as people remember one of africa most divisive leaderss. He was a guerrilla fighter who won independence for zimbabwe. His critics say he became an auto credit when least death squads, rigged elections, and shattered the economy. He was overthrown two years ago. He was the only leader many zimbabweans have ever known. We look back at his life. The liberator who turned into a tyrant, the man who destroyed the promising country through hi
He did play an Important Role in calling out the hypocrisy of the west at times and even during the government of National Unity he at times played a constructive role even within that so he was hes a hes a complicated person certainly. But but ultimately probably he comes out more as a villain and to what extent do you think his death actually changes anything zimbabwe i mean does it in some sense. In sum since it closes the chapter it closes the dr apter for many. Who suffered. The brutality and under his reign directly from him but the the tragedy you know just as the tragedy of mugabes life the tragedy of zimbabwe is that since he is living now i have a stall door or incomplete transition in that the system that that mugabe was a part of remains fully intact and entrenched and what weve seen over the past few months is really that what we can call mugabe ism. The brutality the abductions the torture of of any dissenting voices has continued and so to that degree for those who suffe
Attention to what zimbabweans are saying and is hiram to say his sede his legacy is very complicated on one hand we have young people that see that theyre very said that he has died but i think that is more a reflection of the current president that in the last year and a half somewhat way hasnt been able to resolve the Economic Conditions so there was always a feeling that when robert im going to be days everything will get better the economy will get better the political system would get better and that hasnt happened and so i think thats where we hear some of that feeling of free morse or missing Robert Mugabe but on the other hand there are people that are quite adamant that hes hes straight particularly windy that violence in 2008 that hes legacy is one of violence and brutality in that thats what hell be remembered for and what was it like for you growing up in mugabes zimbabwe. I think i was just tweeting about this a couple of hours ago that you know for me personally its quite