One of the things thats important is i get to the point that i can change the premise that thats a valid position. Its not my position, its a position that i think is terrible in many ways but i can see that you could be a moral , decent person and think that. And if you cant do that, you cant relate to anybody who doesnt agree with you what would be thequestion mister brookhiser you would ask your wife on that issue. Let me inject a brief note of gloom. Williamseward was apparently a lovely man. The former secretary of state. This is when he was a senator before he got that job and he loved his colleagues and one of the colleagues he was close to was senator Jefferson Davis who had a lot of health issues. He had malaria, he also had high trouble and there was a period when seward sat by daviss bedside, tending to him, cheering him on. Exactly. And the civil war what happened and seward became lincolns secretary of state, Jefferson Davis became the president of the confederacy. Did the
Issues are still with us today. President jimmy carter signed the refugees act which raised the ceiling for refugees allowed in america. Held at the jimmy carter president ial library and museum in atlanta, this is an hour and a half. I want to lets get started again. Were going to start with our first panel. I will introduce the moderator, then she will introduce the panelists. Honored to introduce monica stadke. Shes with the raven group. I know monica from her time on the Judiciary Committee, House Judiciary Committee where she focused on immigration and refugees issues. Also i know monica for another reason. Her father was a refugee from uganda resettled to new orleans by hias, my organization. So with that, monica . Thank you very much. And thank you for being here. Thank you to mark for putting on this wonderful event. As mark said, my father was resettled by hias in 1972. So i have a very personal connection. As counsel on the House Judiciary Committee, i worked closely on refug
Creek formation. It preserves the last of the dinosaurs and it out crops here in montana. We have a lot of formation in the state. Finds where we go to triceratops and trex. These dinosaurs are known from the formation. This goes back to the native american days. This was during some of the classic bone wars. This is for the smithsonian or jail. 70ssnt until the late when we found a site thanks to landowners that were rockhounds in northern montana. When a family found the fragments of baby dinosaur bones. Discoveries. Prior to that, science on the dinosaurs rely crocodiles and alligators that they would lay there a and peace out lay their eggs and peace out. But these nestings along with , we put the museum of the rockies on the map. It is focused on the fossils from the hell creek formation. The last nonavian dinosaurs that went extinct, they are 66 million years ago. Is because of two types of dinosaurs in particular that i bet youve heard of. That is treasurer tops which is the hor
Their hopes, wishes and frustrations are found here in the files of the grags of Nationalization Service in washington, d. Washington, d. C. Today, they opened up the gates and all the criminals, all the devils, come into our country that we build up. I think the u. S. Immigration policy is to let in as many people as they can. There is no policy. Theres a time to stop for everything and we have to stop now. Let everybody come in. Its the land of the free, the home of the brave. We dont have enough blacks here. Were outnumbered. Theyre coming now. Theyre coming for money but in the United States is unemployment. Rape, murder. You name it, they have it here. Asians come in. They own brooklyn already. The cubans, they own new jersey. So let them come in, let them take over the next of new jersey. Maybe it will be a better place. Who knows . It upset me this they were letting in 10,000, 15,000 cubans at one time and then turning back haitians that came over the same way. Whats the differe
Lets get started again. We will start with the first panel, and i will introduce the moderator and then she going to introduce the panelists. Honored to introduce to you monica stanky who is with the raven group. She is a nationally known expert on Immigration Law and policy. I know monica from her time on the judiciary committee, the house judiciary committee, where she focused on immigration and refugee issue, but i also know monica for another reason. Her father was a refugee from uganda resettled to new orleans by hius, my organization. Monica. Thank you very much, and thank you for being here, and thank you to mark, and for putting on this wonderful event. As mark said, my father was resettled by hius in 1972 and so i have a personal connection and as counsel on the judiciary committee, it is wonderful to be here. Today we want to diverge from the standup panel, and we want to have two wonderful speakers today and look at how the refugee act came to be and then take a step back to