Your perseverance and service to this nation, both the past, present and in the future too. Things arent getting a whole lot better any time soon, i fear. I would ask consent that my written Opening Statement be entered into the record. As a hearing on the border we havent had one for quite a few months, so i obviously need to use a chart. Thats really what i want to talk about in my opening comments. Weve held i think close to 40 hearings on some aspect of the issues on the border and with our broken immigration system, began keeping this chart on unaccompanied children but then as the whole issue with people coming across and exploiting our asylum laws coming as families, the problem just exploded in late 2018 and into 2019, and the main reason i want to show this chart, youll see the gold colored bars are single adults, down slightly, pretty persistent, pretty stable for the, you know, eight years this chart represents. What you do see, though, in red is unaccompanied children, blue
Have the whole media eyes neck it is definitely not something our new morning and Atlanta Police officers have been fired for using Excessive Force on protesters riot police surrounded a car with a couple inside if you watch this footage you can see the officer slashed their tires approached their windows and tase them and they did not appear to be resisting in any way then they were pulled from the car put on the ground and handcuffed. I think is Law Enforcement if we are ever going to get out of this base that we are in today we have to recognize that our behaviors cannot consistently be pardoned because we are Law Enforcement. These these are good guys i know them as individuals ive worked with one for over 20 years. But they made that level of mistake that cannot be rolled bath. Place minneapolis have arrested several people for curfew violations they nationwide and i started there and george floyd a black man died while being restrained by a white Police Officer more than 4000 peo
Ensuring the autonomy of hong kong. The United States wants an open and constructive relationship with china but its even that relationship requires us to vigorously defend our National Interests the Chinese Government has continually violated its promises to us and so many other nations. These plain facts could not be overlooked or swept aside the Minneapolis Police officer who nailed on the neck of an unarmed black man who died has been charged with his murder derek children handed himself in to Police Officer 3 days of violent protests over the death of george floyd the entrance to a Police Station in minneapolis was set on fire arson loosing and vandalism was seen across the city a small crowd of demonstrators also gathered near a home belonging to the Police Officer in florida minnesotas governor has pleaded for calm and promised justice will be served Alison Herrera is a journalist in minneapolis shes described the mood in the city. People were cleaning up were going blasts a lot
Benefits, is this the fabled v shape recovery that so many people were hoping for well, thats what the markets saying even as the average didnt do much, dow inching up 12 points, s p climbed 3. 4 , nasdaq losing 6. 4 see, thats the problem. I think were looking at a vshaped recovery, but its a vshaped recovery in the stock market and that has almost nothing to do with the vshaped recovery in the economy. Prosper when you look at the nasdaq 100, the tech heavy index that hit an alltime high today, it doesnt seem indicative of the broader jobs picture airlines and hotels and casinos put in the less bad catery, less bad a than we thought, a trend that could last people do fast gaming. It does peter out. Its musical chairs. How can the market rebound without the economy . Because the market doesnt represent the economy. It represents the future of big business the bigger the business, the more it moves the averages and that matters because this is the first recession where big business alo
Citys new curfew beginning 8 pm some protesters responded by setting buildings on fire hundreds of others continued to peacefully protest the death of a black man george floyd after his arrest by a white policeman. Also severely children who was fired shortly after floyds arrest on monday d has now been charged with his murder but its made little difference on the citys turbulent south sunne demonstrators defied the curfew and a large deployment of the National Guard some took out their anger on businesses such as the Department Store and occasionally journalists. Others lined up to challenge police who answered with tear gas that failed to control the unrest these National Guard troops have been blocking roads and theyve been protecting firefighters as theyve been putting out the many fires you can see one of them back there but the governor says there simply arent been enough of them and thats why hes sending in more 1000 more to join the 500 already in minneapolis in nearby st paul