Last year he was barred from entering a migrant child jail inside an old walmart in brownsville, texas, where over 1000 children were being held. He is out with a new book americas better than this trumps war against migrant families. There is nothing darker than the deliberate mistreatment of Migrant Children as a strategy to determine immigration. Literally mistreating children is not acceptable under any moral code o or religious tradition. We have to stop his new plan of indefinite incarceration of these children. Amy are houses is on fire. As the french president declares the devastating fires i in the amazon to be an N International crisis at of the g7 summit, we will look k at how the policiesf brazils far riright president Jair Bolsonaro are destroying the amazon. Bolsonaro needs to face stop the bururning, that we will not tolerate deforestatition. We will fight the crimes that destroroyed the forest. He attacks inspectors and scientists in the indigenous. He criticizes them a
The United States. And Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell also drawing the ire of the president today, failing to respond to chinas retaliatory tariffs, leaving the president to wonder if powell or chinese president xi jinping were the big earnmy bigger enemy. For the latest, we turn to edward lawrence. Federal reserve chairman powell says the fed will act as appropriate to sustain economic expansion. Having said that, trade uncertainty has come to the forefront here at jackson hole. A good part of the speech today focused how theres no precedent to integrate trade uncertainty into monetary policy. The speech laid the groundwork for a rate cut in september, pointing to global shocks, like whats happening in hong kong, germany, china, the economy slowing down and brexit. The speech did not indicate a long series of rate cuts and that set off the president on twitter. It started with the president saying we have a strong dollar and a weak fed. He ended up asking who is the bigger ene
Ecretary Kevin Mcaleenan announced a new rule concerning the detention of migrant families and illegal immigration have the u. S. Mexico border. Under the new policy families can be held for extended periods of time as they await immigration and adjudication proceedings. Good morning. Thank you for joining us to discuss important Action Administration is taking to address the ongoing security and humanitarian crisis at the southwest border, publishing a final rule to implement the Settlement Agreement. This year we have seen an unprecedented flow of family units primarily from Central America coming to the southwest border. During the first 10 months of the fiscal year, u. S. Customs and Border Protection apprehended or encountered nearly 475,000 families, 91st percent crossing unlawfully 95 crossing unlawfully. In the month of may, we sought 88,006 hundred 30 members of family units arrive at our border, four times the record in the last major search. As i have testified and experts t
Good morning. I want to call this business round table to order. I want to thank the participants for taking your time and, first of all, just working on the Homeland Security Advisory Council. From my perspective producing a really good report. A really good basis for hopefully legislation that we can pass on a bipartisan basis, but prior to that working with us to try to accomplish something to started a dressing this tremendous problem. We just keep upping this thing. The top line number is down a little bit because june is reduced a little bit from may because i was rejecting this based on the most recent month. Based on mays numbers the total number of individuals coming here in is either unaccompanied child but prime heard as a family was over 800 thousand projection, now its just over 700 thousand. One thing ive been pointing out since 2014 these bars represent currently five years nine months, 1,086,000 people coming to this country illegally, being apprehended. Most coming as
Subcommittee will examine the Current Situation at us cis must not be overlooked, record high case backlogs, policy changes make it harder to obtain extremely important matters that deserve careful attention. These problems have a direct impact on countless individuals, families, students, business and other entities such as hospitals and research institutions. Im sure others on the subcommittee will agree, constituents on an almost daily basis. All the us cis has struggled with backlogs since its creation the agency reports, and 2. 4 million cases, this represents 344 increase on the backlog of cases. The largest net backlog since 2003, grounding to a halt in the aftermath of the 9 11 terror attacks. Backlogs and processing delays create reallife problems for people trying to navigate complex immigration systems. Imagine a Domestic Violence survivor unable to escape abusers because there is language. Startup company abandoning a key project that will lead to substantial job creation b