I recognize myself for opening statement. In five weeks time, the Inspector General released two alerts detailing dangerous conditions at u. S. Customs and Border Protection facilities in texas. According to the ig, at some of the facilities conditions are so bad that they require immediate attention and action. The first alert focused on the detention of single adults and detailed, quote, dangerous holding conditions at the el paso processing center. Unfortunately this report was not a surprise to me and my colleagues, along with vice chair, i visited the same facility a few months ago. Even then, conditions we observed were unacceptable. Women, children, families were either outside waiting to enter the facility, shoved into overcrowded cells, or sitting in hallways. Prior to the visit, we understood hundreds of families were housed outside for days in a tent behind the Border Patrol facility. We expected to meet with them, but to our surprise, the tent was empty. It was not until af
More. I want to start by welcoming some special guests before i turn it over to paul fritz and the panel and the special guests. Guests include students from comac school, the ib program, as well as our students in the hofstra Honors College, the and e program. So were so delighted to have the students here with us. You heard yesterday a lot of the perspective of panel this in terms of how impactful Obama Administration and ten year was to the lifetime of of people who really consciousness was just being raised during that administration. So were really excited to hear from todays panel which well start off with with Foreign Policy and driving in this morning just off of the top of my head i was thinking sort of reenergized by yesterdays conversation and all of the things that the Obama Administration had to deal with, just some of the Foreign Policy topics that were top of mind, to me, quick memory. As i get older, that memory is fading but two wars. The cairo speech, the arab spring,
University. I want to welcome you to day two of the barack obama conference. Very exciting, very engaging, inspiring and very much thought provoking. Day and day two certainly offers to be all of those things and more. I want to start by welcoming some special guests before i turn it over to paul fritz and the panel and the special guests. Guests include students from comac school, the ib program, as well as our students in the hofstra Honors College, the and e program. So were so delighted to have the students here with us. You heard yesterday a lot of the perspective of panel this in terms of how impactful Obama Administration and ten year was to the lifetime of of people who really consciousness was just being raised during that administration. So were really excited to hear from todays panel which well start off with with Foreign Policy and driving in this morning just off of the top of my head i was thinking sort of reenergized by yesterdays conversation and all of the things that
Day and day two certainly offers to be all of those things and more. I want to start by welcoming some special guests before i turn it over to paul fritz and the panel and the special guests. Guests include students from comac school, the ib program, as well as our students in the hofstra Honors College, the and e program. So were so delighted to have the students here with us. You heard yesterday a lot of the perspective of panel this in terms of how impactful Obama Administration and ten year was to the lifetime of of people who really consciousness was just being raised during that administration. So were really excited to hear from todays panel which well start off with with Foreign Policy and driving in this morning just off of the top of my head i was thinking sort of reenergized by yesterdays conversation and all of the things that the Obama Administration had to deal with, just some of the Foreign Policy topics that were top of mind, to me, quick memory. As i get older, that me
I have the privilege of serving as provost here at hofstra university. I want to welcome you to day two of the barack obama conference. Very exciting, very engaging, inspiring and very much thought provoking. Day and day two certainly offers to be all of those things and more. I want to start by welcoming some special guests before i turn it over to paul fritz and the panel and the special guests. Guests include students from comac school, the ib program, as well as our students in the hofstra Honors College, the and e program. So were so delighted to have the students here with us. You heard yesterday a lot of the perspective of panel this in terms of how impactful Obama Administration and ten year was to the lifetime of of people who really consciousness was just being raised during that administration. So were really excited to hear from todays panel which well start off with with Foreign Policy and driving in this morning just off of the top of my head i was thinking sort of reener