The generous support of our underwriters of the Kennedy Library museum. The Lowell Institute in our media sponsors the boston globe and wbur. We look forward to robust questionandanswer period this evening. You will see full instructions on the screen for submitting your questions via email or in the comments on our youtube page during the program. We are so grateful to have this opportunity to explore president kennedys earlier years and depth with our distinguished speakers this evening. This is the first major work about president kennedy in many years. We have been anticipating this for some time. Much of professor legevalls research took place in the kennedy archive and we are please to look at this conference a new look at president kennedys formative years. Im now delighted to introduce tonight speakers. We are so glad to welcome Frederik Logevall back to the Kennedy Library virtually. He is lawrence the bill for professor of International Affairs and professor of history at har
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[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] okay. Can i have your attention please . Have conversation with the secretary of Homeland Security, alejandro mayorkas, known to many as alley. Thank you. [applause] why do we did right into it . Why did you want to leave a very prosperous law firm job to be the secretary of Homeland Security recs have you ever had any second thoughts about that job . [laughing] no second thoughts. What a privilege it is to leave a place one loves to biblical took place one loves. Okay. The way i i bridge of the o worlds is by borrowing and stealing talent. So jamie is the chair, culture of her Homeland Security Advisory Council in the department of Homeland Security and the jewel thief that am i just stole matthew from the law firm to join us and he will be a senior counselor on matters of technology. Okay. Well, let me talk about the elephant in the room, because you were the second secretary in the history of our country to be impeached. What was i
Encounter and the point of final adjudication of an asylum claim is seven plus years. Approximately 70 of the people need an essential threshold for a son, the cradle fair standard, about 70 qualify. So they stay for 7 years and the ultimate adjudication, about 20 qualify. Thats quite a disparity of people in the meantime leave, are able to stay. Sometimes have children, u. S. Citizen children, attend our schools, attended our places of worship but integrate i understand but why wasnt so we coming in illegally always say theyre seeking political asylum . Base on what you just said there likely to be here for seven years. Why not just say im not smuggling drugs. Im just a political Asylum Seeker . Separate drug smuggling for migration. The fact of the matter is that we have an extraordinary number of people claiming asylum, and a greatly reduced number of people qualifying for it. The reality is that people do claim asylum when, in fact, they are fleeing poverty, generalized violence, a