Which i absolutely love my father left me ireland by Michael Brendan dougherty. In some ways is very different from what we do, from what im used to. Im a scholar here at aei and we are a private institute for Public Policy research. We do lots of social science studies and in fact social science studies get a bad name in my father left me ireland but in a way that highlights what we have in common to the section that goes after how nationhood in the modern day is often well ill put it like this a nation today in a modern way of thinking is at best problematic. It is at best problematic a useful administrative unit. That section is tipped off by the author Michael Daugherty talking about singing to his newborn baby over and over again the same songs. The foggy dew, the wind that shakes the barley and even the patriots game which i tried to sing in that lullaby way. This is familiar to me because i also sing my children to sleep with irish songs. I mostly use irish rebel songs because t
Smaller and by january of this year we still had 544,000 overstays from fiscal year 16. Suspected of being in the country. Still an incredibly large number. To put that number in context, we only apprehended 310,000 unique individuals crossing the land border illegally last year. Meaning we had almost twice as many overstays as people apprehended at the land southern border. Its probably time to jet son the conventional wisdom that visa overstays make up about 40 of the elicit flow with this years number of Border Apprehensions at record low, visa overstays are a much bigger problem than it has been historically. So, why does closing this gap in our Border Security defenses matter . Well, there are unidentified National Security and Public Safety risks in a population that large and visa overstays have historically been the primary means for terrorist entry into the United States. Time and time again terrorists exploited the visa system by legally entering america. The 9 11 commission
Order. The subcommittee is meeting to examine visa overstays. Conversations about the best way to secure have been me principle focus of the media, congress, and administration. To visawant to go overstays. Yesterday, dhs released the official 2016 overstay numbers and this way they expanded the categories and to students and visa holders. I want to thank them for providing an accurate number. The numbers are start. Start the numbers are stark. Cpb calculated that we had nearly 740,000 people overstay their visas at some point in fiscal year 2016. Even using cpbs more generous numbers that account for some of those overstays who eventually leave, albeit late, we had almost 630,000 overstays still in the country at the end of last fiscal year. Over more time as more and more overstays left the number gets smaller and by january of this year we still had 544,000 overstays from fiscal year 16. Suspected of being in the country. Still an incredibly large number. To put that number in conte
Department over the sale of bad mortgage bonds. As talks consider to end the San Francisco transit strike, there is a report of tragedy. Our top story tonight is out of syria, which has seen hostage negotiations, a shootout and a suicide bombing on the last few hours. Nine lebanese hostages abducted in syria last year have been freed. The release comes after a complex negotiation between turkey, lebanon, syria and the Syrian Rebels. Andrew simmons reports from beirba bayroot. Their homecoming was a kay on theic emotional ent. The men ands made their way out in the crowd. They expected there will be a delegation. Can he. This was quite a problem, a set of negotiations with turkey involved as well and nothing could happen until there was an absolute clearance on the security of the Turkish Airline pilots and they are safe so now, after all of this time, the men are with their loved ones in beirut celebrating their homecoming. Inside syria, bombing killed 16 soldiers at a military checkpo
So far so good on the bw parkway. 55 Miles Per Hour is the southbound traffic. A nice start on 70 in towards the beltway. South on 29 is checking out ok down towards the capital beltway. A light ride east and westbound at this hour. 54 on the baltimore beltway. 83s checking out just fine. Out of traffic is very like to and from 95. That is the latest on traffic pulse 11. We decided were not going to say one word for the next three hours because that pretty much says it all afc champion baltimore ravens. The ravens are heading towards new orleans. The ravens did avenge last years loss to the patriots. 14 unanswered points while the defense shut down tom bradys passing attack. 2813. The ravens stars reflected on what this game meant to them. We didnt come all the way here to play it safe. We have to play to win and do some of those plays. Our guys made big plays, everybody came up big when we needed to. Baltimore is one of the most loyal places ive been around. The greatest reward is ano