The House Committee on the judiciary will come to order. Without objections, the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this hearing on policing practices and Law Enforcement accountability. I thank all of our members and witnesses for participating, both in person and remotely. I appreciate all the work that went into making use of this room and the technology we are using possible. Before we begin, i would like to remind members we have established an email address and distribution list dedicated to circulating exhibits, motions, or other written materials members might want to offer as part of our hearing. If you would like to submit turtles, please send them to the email address that has been previously distributed to your offices, and we will circulate the materials to members and staff as quickly as we can. In light of what is going on in the world today, i ask that everyone in the room wear a mask at all times other than when
Cities tonight in Minneapolis Police are confronting demonstrators who are breaking the curfew thank you for joining us tonight at 8 im pam moore and can weigh in for a 5th niting chaos a scene playing out. Across the nation. Minneapolis has been the epicenter of protests since e death of george floyd on memorial day tonight protesters stay out past curfew at one point marching toward downtown that is once not swat teams fired tear gas into the crowd. The tougher tactics came after city and state leaders were criticized there for not confronting the violence more strongly an overnight curfew is in effect in minneapolis and in more than a dozen major cities across the nation violent protests that rocked america from coast to coast even in cities that are known as civil hot spots, so we want to show you some live pictures from 3 different cities across the country we have los angeles atlanta. And chicago where police in those 3 cities have been battling protesters and fires and theres be
Are profiteering on the back of migrants. Can you talk about that is one of the opening points in your book . The work you are doing is so important to in my in the American Public about the vice grip the cartels have at the border. So one of the things that is really important to eliminate in chapter one is the Caravan Cartel that they could not do it alone not just to have explicit conspiratorial is out there to make billions of dollars of profit to endanger lives and wreaking violence and havoc but the fact that benevolent charities and religious organizations that may think they are doing good deeds and of course we know about the kinds of roads that good intentions pay but those religious organizations on both sides of the border are enabling the drug cartels to make as much cash as they do. We have seen the ill legal alien caravans come into your state and beyond. And the support money that subsidize the shelter networ network, especially churchgoers is from their own pockets and
About 40 million. After 2023, it was uncertain how that liability would be paid down and our discussions at that time with the Housing Authority, there was an assumption there would be sufficient residual receipts to pay down that liability but it is an ongoing risk for the Housing Authority. So in terms of our report, we made 16 recommendations and some of these pertain to the mou thats before you today. Although none of them would in any way impact your approval of the mou in this meeting. So of the 16 recommendations, we heard from the mayors housing who will be responding to the audit and agreed with the 12 of the recommendations or qualifications and disagreed with four and well go through the four disagreements. It would be transparent about what the status of funding was and then for early reporting to the board possible vouchers shortfalls in the Housing Voucher Program and one of the things thats important here is that because theres assumption that the funding for the formula
That liability would be paid down and our discussions at that time with the Housing Authority, there was an assumption there would be sufficient residual receipts to pay down that liability but it is an ongoing risk for the Housing Authority. So in terms of our report, we made 16 recommendations and some of these pertain to the mou thats before you today. Although none of them would in any way impact your approval of the mou in this meeting. So of the 16 recommendations, we heard from the mayors housing who will be responding to the audit and agreed with the 12 of the recommendations or qualifications and disagreed with four and well go through the four disagreements. It would be transparent about what the status of funding was and then for early reporting to the board possible vouchers shortfalls in the Housing Voucher Program and one of the things thats important here is that because theres assumption that the funding for the formula can lead to shotfalls there is supplemental fundin