How is everybody doing . Really appreciate the opportunity. Thank you fran for the kind introduction. Great to see you and also want to thank the council on foreign releases for the opportunity to be with you today and have an important discussion on the state of Border Security and immigration concerns, nationalry but also hopefully fran well have the opportunity to have conversation and dialogue on some of the other Homeland Security priorities and with the members here. I know that many of you have been following the crisis on our southwest border over the past year. And tracking really the growing regional challenge of irregular migration in the region. Not only has the situation had obvious implications for Border Security. But its led to really a significant humanitarian crisis as well as a Foreign Policy challenge in the United States and throughout the region. Id like to take the thog today a little bit of above the headlines and the daily news cycle and kind of look back at ch
Mr. Mcaleenan good afternoon. How is everybody doing . Really appreciate the opportunity. Thank you, fran, for the kind introduction, and thank you for the opportunity to be with you today to have this important discussion on the state of security and immigration concerns nationally, but also, hopefully, we will have a conversation and dialogue on some of the other department of Homeland Security priorities, and of course, with the members here. I know many of you have been following the crisis over the past year and tracking the growing regional challenge of migration in the region. Not only has the situation had obvious implications for order for our Border Security, but it has led to a significant humanitarian prices as well as a foreignpolicy challenge in the u. S. And throughout the region. I would like to take a dialogue the dialogue today a little and thee the headlines daily news cycle and kind of look back at the challenges over the past 10 months or so, in our efforts to addr
Please call the role. [roll call] [roll call] thank you both. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I would like to welcome all of you here this evening for the special joint hearing hosted by the Human Rights Commission. I would like to welcome our human rights of commissioners. Thank you for joining us this evening, on behalf of my colleagues we are delighted to be cohosting this hearing with you. We look forward to a good, and open conversation this evening. We have some excellent speaker testimony that we are looking forward to gathering. We very much look forward to hearing from members of the community on the issue of the border crisis, our first order of business to are there any announcements . Thank you. Office of Civic Engagement and veterans affairs. To members of the public, this is special joint meeting at the San Francisco immigrant rights commandant commission on the Human Rights Commission cosponsored by yee and ronan. Please silence all cell phones so speakers are commiss
One of our Public Offices who has joined us. David, thank you for being here this evening. As always speak pelosi is a champion of immigrant rights and immigrant needs, so we thank you for being here on her behalf. Okay, our next speaker is carol bisharat from kids in need of descents. Good evening. I am a direct representation attorney, my name is carol bisharat, for kids in need of defense and from our San Francisco i offices. We are a National Nonprofit that has ten offices across the country dedicated to the representation of unaccompanied minors, who are in proceedings for the Immigration Court. I have some prepared remarks, which i am willing to share, in an electronic fashion i will forward them to elaina for distribution to each of you. There is more information than i can relay in of short amount of time that i have to speak with you. There are so much to say, for what is going on on the ground, what kinds of changes both policy and procedures that have detrimentally affected
It also looks at all cachet, just not federal cachet, but state or local cash assistance programs and barring some of them getting a green card or entering the United States. It English Proficiency as a positive factor or lack of proficiency has a negative factor. It would look at medical conditions, whether or not they have private Health Insurance and whether or not theyve ever used a fee waiver to waive a filing fee for past immigration application. It would also allow to potentially overcome a public charge determination if they pay a bond, the minimum amount of which would be 8,100. The rule will not take effect until midoctober, until that time, all pending green card applications and those that are postmarked before that date, october 15, 2019 will be adjudicated under what our current standards for public charge. As i mentioned, under existing policy, the only programs i look at our federal cachet that people receive, and whether or not they are in long term institutionalized c