The president kennedy documents. That is going to be live on washington journal. Join the discussion. Earlier this month, the ju dir jere Committee Held a committee on ending the deferred childhood act, known as daca and they are to come up with a more legal approach to come up by the end of the year. Welcome, everybody. Particularly to our witnesses on both panels, because i know that you put a lot of work into the preparation. We thank everybody for their participation, for their help. Before i give my Opening Statement for the topic of our hearing, i think that we all take a moment yesterday and today and for a long time in the future, but i do it now on behalf of the committee to recognize the victims of the Las Vegas Shooting and their loved ones. As you are aware, yesterday more than 59 americans lost their lives and more than 500 were injured. The carnage occurred, that occurred yesterday is truly heartbreaking. We are here today to consider how to address the issue created by p
Within t90 days. This is just under two hours. Normally i dont see reading until the ranking democrat gets here, but theres a vote going on so this is the way im going to handle the meeting. Im going to call on the senator because he has an important meeting to go to so i want him to make his statement and ill make my statement and ill introduce the first panel and then we wont do anything after that. Proceed. Thank you for doing this. Its out of order and for those who are new i appreciate the courtesy extended to me. Im Ranking Member of the Defense Appropriations Committee and we have a closed door hearing recollectio hearing, but i wanted to be here because im the ranking democratic member on the immigration subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary committee. I did that for several reasons. I am the son of an immigrant. My mother came to this country at the age of 2. I am honored to be a first generation american. If you come to my office youll see my mothers naturalization certificate
We continue to watch for amtrak indications that core alqaeda is, in fact, engaged in plotting activities aimed and i can someone. Bubeyond human weve also been watching alqaedas Affiliate Networks and individuals and syria who may be looking to get extra operations against the west a potentially the homeland. But we got some very public successes in terms of a disrupting some individuals involved in plotting from syria, there is cody ford be done in the work continues. Or third area of or third area, last area i will mention is the growing use of simple opportunity to attacks by homegrown violent extremist, we called hves. Hves. That stop the practice could proliferate within the last several years. When you look back to 2000 were seeing less than two or three of those incidents per year. By last year that number was a dozen antedate issued a number of incidents were disrupted plots is a redoubled for this year suggesting that are, in fact, a greater number of transit is transience in
Answer is. Were here just to tell folks the example i use is the fbis not an alien force imposed upon america from mars. Right . We belong to the American People. We have the tools that the American People gave us through you. And our job when one of those tools isnt working so much anymore is to tell the American People, thats why were talking so much about encryption. You see it in the isil cases and kidnapping cases and drug cases and child abuse cases. Theres a conflict in our values that we simply must figure out how to resolve. It is obvious in the case of isil well continue doing the work. Im very grateful as my colleagues are for the high quality product that this committee did on travelers, those responding to the first part of that siren song, that come. Theres Something Interesting happening that i want to tell the committee about just in the last few months we are seeing fewer people attempt to travel to join isil in syria. We have seen six in the last 3 1 2 months. We were
Theyre already in the database that they would be flagged in other words, a terrorist organization suspect going to try to get someone in as a refugee if they already have a public background that you would be able to uncover. Theyre going to get people in the country who have not yet committed a terrorist attack. Dont you think it is likely they are going to try to do that . There is a pretty thorough vetting process of each individual which encompasses a personal assessment of each individual which includes an interview. It is not simply whats in a public record. Does a person have a wrap sheet of any kind. Youre relying upon them and what they say or write out in an application. And you cant go beyond that. So you have to sort of take their way for it. Another red flag is historically refugees have been members of families. Yet the typical profile of a syrian refugee, im told, are young, be single males as opposed to family members. If so, to me that would raise red flag as well. Do