Test. Test. Test. Resettle my families as well. These are dark days for america. Because these are dark days for immigrants to this country, those seeking Refugee Status or asylum, those who are undocumented aliens, or even those helping them. Lets not forget that the fits assassin killed 11 jews at the tree of life synagogue to retaliate against the life saving refugee work. Our country has been in this circumstance is the of hell before. Think of the very antiimmigrant no Nothing Party in the 1840s. The chinese exclusion act of 1882, the 1924 racist quota law aimed the immigrants in europe and the refusal to provide sanctuary to people fleeing hitler and the failure to open its doors wide at that time. Todays antiimmigrant and antiforeign afury Shows Progress is not inevitable. Over the past two and a half years, we have hurdled backwards as a nation repeating some of the cruellest, most bigoted moments in our history. This has no shame. It is bold and brazen. Tryings to shut down im
President ial library and museum. Im so excited for you to be here today. We are commemorating the refugee act of 1980 signed by president carter in march that year. On behalf of president carter, who was unable to be here, i just want to welcome you first, welcome you to the carter president ial center. We say center because theres two fabulous entities here, the federal entity is the Library Museum which is where you are now and a few feet away is the Carter Center which is an ngo. Together president carter looks at us as the center. We provide him with data, research, camaraderie, advice and we work really, really hard for him as well. The refugee act is an amendment to the earlier immigration and nationality act and the migration of the refugee assistant act. The goal was to provide permanent and consistent admission to people who were suffering in other nations and to provide asylum. That was the whole point of it. This is what makes it so exciting to be here today too. We are par
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
President carter in march that year. On the half of president carter who is unable to be here, i want to welcome new first to welcome you to the carter president ial center. We say center because theres two fabulous entities here, the federal entity is the Library Museum which is where you are now and, a few feet away is the Carter Center. Together, president carter looks at us as the center, we provide him with data, research, commodity, advice and we work really hard for him as well. So the refugee act as an amendment to the earlier immigration and nationality act in the migration of the refugee assistance act. The goal was to provide admission to people who were suffering in other nations and provide asylum that was the whole point of it. This is what makes it so exciting, we are partnering with the ceo whos been doing this work for over 100 years. Helping people come to america and work through resettlement and getting the life more robust and back on track in more ways in the Unit
Testified before a Senate Armed Services committee recently. He was asked about drug interdiction efforts, the humanitarian situation in venezuela, russias influence in the region and a number of other topics. Hey, the welcome, everybody. The emerging threat and capabilities subcommittee meets today to receive testimony from admiral craig faller, commander of u. S. Southern command or as we call it southcom. Our focus on the security situation in this theater as well as southcoms efforts to implement the National Defense strategy. Welcome to the admiral. Thank you very much for being here, sir. I appreciate it. Todays hearing is a continuation of the subcommittees efforts to provide oversight over National Defense strategy implementation. This is an important component of our efforts to ensure our militarys appropriately resourced, equipped and postured to dividend the nation against a growing array of threats. While much attention has been on countering china and russia in their tradi