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Hi, good morning. Good morning. Welcome to the 24th annual texas book festival, i will start off with just a few housekeeping items, if you could all silence your phones at this time, that would be great, please feel free to share your experience on social media using the festival attexasbookfest. Texasbookfest, keep in mind questions that you may want to ask towards the end, you may have a good time to ask them, at the end to have conversation the authors will find books at the book tent which i believe is right there, the books are on sale by book people, your independent bookstore, the largest bookstore, largest indy bookstore in texas, the portion of the book helps funds programs that brings authors to students to lowincome schools in texas and find grants for libraries in texas, thank you, in this panel we will be going beyond headlines to discuss the real experience of immigrants living in america, we have two imminent authors that will share with us their journeys. Most recently
Conference on Immigration Law and migration at the u. S. Mexico border. Kevin mcaleenan was scheduled to deliver opening remarks, but left the stage after being interrupted multiple times by protesters. This portion of the event also included a Panel Discussion on immigration policy and the 2020 election cycle. Good morning. This time, im interrupting you, for real. Good morning, everybody. We will to those of you in the room and work on those to you joining us on cspan. I am the president of the migration policy institute. So long with our partners, catholic legal integration clinic endorsed down law, we are very delighted to a commute to the 16th annual policy confronts. Do you get a we will in a moment from executive director but i wanted to join with clooney and also thinking for hosting us and once again for this meeting to go to the dean slave trader, and to all of the staff that were involved in putting this together. Our team has been involved in putting this together. There ar
This is you and you followed for decades. So you really do have some perspective on how things ball. I wonder whether you could start us off with some observations about the degree to which the current era is different from what youve seen in the past or maybe its not different. Maybe it really is what we know which is immigration been contentious throughout our history and maybe this is simply that a version of it. But talk to us about that. Andif theres any observation that you have from what it is weve seen that happen, feel free to share that as well. Somuch for, from andrew and fororganizing this important event every year. Such a fantastic gathering of people who care about the immigration system. Thank you very much. I see some continuities between president from and past administrations, but mostly very start differences. But lets talk about some of the similarities area so border enforcement. I think that the president s rhetoric about a porous border and building the big beau
Available at cspan. Org. The new york city ceremony still under way, on cspan3. The house gaveling in next to take up two bills restricting oil and gas drilling in the u. S. Live coverage on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by chaplain, father croix conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray, god of heaven and earth we give you thanks for giving us another day. Today we remember a day 18 years ago, the terror and violence ended in heroic effort and courage. We mourn those whose lives were snatched from them and wish to comfort those left behind who still strive to cope with their loss. May you, god, give them peace and healing. We thank you again for the almost universal International Response to a Great American tragedy which all the world recognized as theirs as well. All your children of goodwill could see the horror of actions by men who were presumed to act in your name causing so much death and destruction. May your spirit of peace an