Welcome to American Historical Association congressional briefing on immigration along the southwestern and and southern border of United States. These often get conflated as we just talking about in ways that are not necessarily productive, even though weve done it ourselves. Im jim glassman, the executive director of the american historical. Because this program been on covid induced hiatus for three years, id like to quickly provide at least a little of context for what well be doing this morning, as many of you know, are obsessed with context, which is why were here. The hhs congressional briefings date back to 2005, provide staff, journalists and others in the policy community with the historical background necessary to understand the context of current legislative concerns. The program rests on the premise that has a history and that anyone involved in influencing policies, decisions of any kind, whether in corporate world, government nonprofit world, influencing and decisions of
Welcome to American Historical Association congressional briefing on immigration along the southwestern and and southern border of United States. These often get conflated as we just talking about in ways that are not necessarily productive, even though weve done it ourselves. Im jim glassman, the executive director of the american historical. Because this program been on covid induced hiatus for three years, id like to quickly provide at least a little of context for what well be doing this morning, as many of you know, are obsessed with context, which is why were here. The hhs congressional briefings date back to 2005, provide staff, journalists and others in the policy community with the historical background necessary to understand the context of current legislative concerns. The program rests on the premise that has a history and that anyone involved in influencing policies, decisions of any kind, whether in corporate world, government nonprofit world, influencing and decisions of
Americans who preceded us, with the exception of many africanamericans who were brought here in bondage, virtually all of the rest of us are the sons and daughters of immigrants to america. Immigrants from literally all over the world who have come to this nation and made us different, different in a positive way. They have given life to this democracy. They have given hope when it comes to our future. They have inspired us. I will be the first to admit that i do not come to this debate without strong personal feelings like millions of americans. I am a son of an immigrant. In 1911, 107 years ago my grandmother came to this country with three little kids. One of those kids was my mother. She was two years old when they landed their ship landed in baltimore. My grandmother didnt speak a word of english but somehow she managed to take those three kids and make her way to join my grandfather in east st. Louis, illinois. On the credenza behind my desk here at at the capital is my mothers n
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I say he had the charm of Thomas Jefferson the persona of washington the instinct of the Abraham Lincoln and the populist instincts of jackson. Was an incredible leader but however hands on he mate or may not have been almost every day at 5 00 or 6 00 he had the childrens hour or the cocktail hour with advisers come in and would mix the drinks. He loved to mix the drinks because it was an activity and never talk about politics. So it is safe to say of all major decisions not from military pfizers but his fertile and imagination with the invasion of north africa which caved in 1940 to lung dash 1942 they said that invasion would lead to a down in the blackest day of American History. Roosevelt was able to peer out into the distance with the major decisions to give assistance to the soviet union to keep them alive in the struggle and sunning himself four days. But then to come up with the idea is safe to say whatever happens because roosevelt wanted. There are two other leaders in and th