The hearing took place. In the national 9 11 memorial and museum in new york city, just ahead of the 18th anniversary of the attacks. You, chairman johnson, Ranking Member peters and Committee Members, my name is Alice Greenwald, resident of the ceo of the 9 11 memorial museum. On behalf of everyone associated with the memorial and the museum, i want to express our sincere gratitude for your commitment to securing the safety of our nation. We are honored to have secretaries chertoff, napolitano, and johnson here with us. And i want to thank each of you for your service to the nation. The decision to hold this public field hearing here, within a space defined by the remaining foundational structure of the World Trade Center at what was 18 years ago this week, the epicenter of ground zero, makes todays program especially meaningful. I know many of you toured the museum last night, some for the first time. Museum last night, some for the first time. The events we chronicle here, he lives
Good morning. This hearing will come to order. This is the hearing of the title is resources needed to protect and secure the homeland. We will review the budget of Homeland Security. We have acting secretary of Homeland Security, the honorable Kevin Mcaleenan here to testify. I want to first of all appreciate and thank you for your long service to this country. And in particular at this moment where we are grappling with so many issues. The aftermath of an unprecedented level of disasters with hurricanes and fires in california, hurricanes, you know, obviously in the gulf coast, the dister that aster oct the border right now. If we could quickly put up our chart. I think ee hawe have our chart. Not only do we have it on the chart, but we had an event in oshkosh over the weekend that required a giveaway. I produced a chart. It shows how out of control the problem is. In the first seven months of this year we have over 300, the total is actually 312,000 individuals coming either as over
We have a lot of folks on the roster so i want to get right into the program. There we go. So, we are going to hear from u. S. Senator from nevada jacky rosen, lets save applause for the end. Directive the director of the Mccain Institute, the white house domestic policy advisor, susan rice, and the special advisor on security, rabbi walker. An author historian and professor, who will also be receiving the please join me in giving a warm welcome to the senator. Good afternoon everyone. I want to say i am a former synagogue president. Im used to this. Usually were just giving the announcements, but lunch is great. Its so great to see all of you, and to be here with all of you today at the National Leadership summit. I looked out and i see friends, some old and some new, i see some las vegas lost begins over here, so people from chicago. Im sure there are this way out there. But i want to thank all of the leaders here at the adl, including all of our friends, the National Director Jonath
Spending bills in a bipartisan way and im working closely with vice chair collins on this and i believe we have the opportunity and responsibility to Work Together to make our country more safe, more competitive, and do good for the people we represent and the risk of sounding like a broken record while it is currently in infraction. Title several help and the abuse of immigration parole. Since President Biden took office as part of casualties, he has paroled in and around the million aliens who for humanitarian purpose. Administrations have been abusing Parole Authority for many years has by congress attempts to raided. In most, recently the biden ministration has created categorical pearl programs for several countries make the chaos of the border less noticeable. Title seven points use of pearl back to its intended purpose to allow foreign nationals to enter the u. S. For an emergency purpose for a short period of time. Finally, title eight films and the job might have hurt legal mi
Greenblatt, the sports chair been sacked, and i am going to give a very special shout out to nevadas own, my own joey breslin. [applause] and so, your tireless work of countless others across this Organization Helps to fight back against antisemitism, against bigotry and hate, and across the globe nobody does this work alone. For over a century the adl has been leading the charge to secure justice and fair treatment for all. And to bring an end to injustice and unfair discrimination against the jewish people. And so, we need you, all of you, the ones i can see, well, now i can see well. All of you. We need all of you now more than ever. And one thing i dont have to tell this group is that we are living in a time when Jewish Americans and jews around the world are experiencing an alarming search in antisemitic hate crimes and violence. And all of us here as leaders today, we note that we have a special responsibility to stand up for what is right and that special responsibility to speak