Also coming up who in europe will take in the migrants from across the mediterranean the European Union has a new plan to share the load a change that cannot come soon enough for. This well in arrivals is due in part to the former Italian Governments policy of refusing port to the rescue vessels that save migrants in the mediterranean this has made multiple the closest safe harbor to the north african coast. And to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world well we begin the day with even less time to save the world as we know it a new u. N. Report released today warns that Climate Change is accelerating the last 5 years have been the 5 warmest on record and Scientists Say if that trend continues the. Only way to mitigate Global Warming will be to take the goals in the paris climate agreement and basically triple them where young people at the start of the u. N. Climate summit today admonished adults for not doing enough to protect the planet and for deliveri
Hosting me. These are challenging times in the United States and across the world. We have to be candid. We have enemies in the world. I have categorized the countries we face in four groups. Enemies, allies, problematic allies and rivals. Lets talk lets talk about each. I ran Nuclear Weapons. North korea already has them. Both have repeatedly called for the destruction of the United States of america. In southa. America we have faild states controlled antiamerican thugs such such as ortega and nicaragua. Using their retails and powers across the western hemisphere and beyond. We also face hostile rivals such as china and russia. Qualitatively different from our enemies in that we trade with them, we compete with them in the economic sphere and yet more often than not, their interest are antagonistic to our own. They have have the resources to be developing nextgeneration weapons platforms. Sophisticatedhi weaponry includg weapons that will be fielded in space and weapons for artificia
Issues are still with us today. President jimmy carter signed the refugees act which raised the ceiling for refugees allowed in america. Held at the jimmy carter president ial library and museum in atlanta, this is an hour and a half. I want to lets get started again. Were going to start with our first panel. I will introduce the moderator, then she will introduce the panelists. Honored to introduce monica stadke. Shes with the raven group. I know monica from her time on the Judiciary Committee, House Judiciary Committee where she focused on immigration and refugees issues. Also i know monica for another reason. Her father was a refugee from uganda resettled to new orleans by hias, my organization. So with that, monica . Thank you very much. And thank you for being here. Thank you to mark for putting on this wonderful event. As mark said, my father was resettled by hias in 1972. So i have a very personal connection. As counsel on the House Judiciary Committee, i worked closely on refug
Lets get started again. We will start with the first panel, and i will introduce the moderator and then she going to introduce the panelists. Honored to introduce to you monica stanky who is with the raven group. She is a nationally known expert on Immigration Law and policy. I know monica from her time on the judiciary committee, the house judiciary committee, where she focused on immigration and refugee issue, but i also know monica for another reason. Her father was a refugee from uganda resettled to new orleans by hius, my organization. Monica. Thank you very much, and thank you for being here, and thank you to mark, and for putting on this wonderful event. As mark said, my father was resettled by hius in 1972 and so i have a personal connection and as counsel on the judiciary committee, it is wonderful to be here. Today we want to diverge from the standup panel, and we want to have two wonderful speakers today and look at how the refugee act came to be and then take a step back to
All right, welcome back, everyone. I want to introduce the next panel which is going to focus on the implementation of the refugee act of 1980. And moderating that panel is eric schwartz, former assistant secretary of state for population frunles and migration under the Obama Administration. He was Senior Adviser for humanitarian affairs during the Clinton Administration on the National Security councils. And most importantly he is on the hias board. He also happens to be the president of Refugees International. And he is seated next to the expresident of Refugees International. So eric. Thanks. Thank you, mark. It is it is a distinct pleasure to be here today. And i want to thank hias and the Carter Center for bringing us all together for this very important event. And needless to say this is a critical time for us to be considering not only the refugee act of 1980 but also the very future of refugee protection in the United States and around the world. At a time when the number of pe