Immigration enforcement practices. This is about two hours and ten minutes. Thank you for your patience and willingness to stay until 4 00 oclock. We appreciate it. Today we welcome matthew albans, the u. S. Immigration and custos enforcement. They stand for being here this afternoon. As we continue to monitor the challenging situation on the southern border, we look forward to hearing your perspective on the funding priority and requirements. As cheers of the subcommittee, i am committed to ensuring the integrity and strengthening integration system. But i am equally committed to making sure we do so, according to a way that is a bullfight our american values. In particular, we must assure in accordance with our values, both violence and persecution have meaningful opportunities to seek asylum. We must get this balance right and i believe that we can if we Work Together. Its a choice to believe that more migrants need to be unnecessarily detained and cruel and exclusionary immigration
Slope to help the underserved in park slope. Forty years ago chips really was in a neighborhood that needed help, and a lot of the residents that lived there were looking for some advocacy programs for them. So theres a group of people that came together, and they thought, well, we can at least offer these services. They started in one store front, they went to another and another and eventually they landed on Fourth Avenue and sackett. So and it was just an old warehouse, i think, of some kind right. And they took that first floor, and they started making soup. And every day on a kitchen stove like youd have at home, volunteers came, and they made soup. And then at that point the Homeless Population was really expanding. Right. So they started putting cots down, so theyd pick up the dining room tables, and theyd this at night. So in addition well, tell me about the programs that you had. So thats how it started. A few years later sister mary maloney came along, shes a plan sis can sis
Thats right this is just the start of course we have Different Things that causes different allergies different times of year and this time of year that was hard to deal with those trees were looking at some of the trees out there juniper and maple and ash those of the trees that are causing all the pollen that is out there and tomorrow will be around the nine point five category as well. Food on a thursday and friday over eleven with twelve being the highest level so were certainly looking at those higher pollen levels through the next few days looking a lot of heavy rain and the extended forecast but there is some rain that will help clear the skies just a little bit of sun that pollen jeff will be back with a full seven day forecast coming up in a few minutes right in the number two civilian leader at the pentagon came to naval station off this morning and affirm the u s commitment to Israels Deputy secretary of defense robert work visited the uss stout he was joined by his israeli
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Todays top stories this hour hoff Shepard Smith reporting. On this friday afternoon, hope youre warm wherever you are. Im bill hemmer in for Shepard Smith. President trump saying he was surprised and only found out recently that rob porter was facing accusations of abuse by his two exwives. Was said when he heard about it. Hes also very sad now. As you know, he says hes innocent. I think you have to remember that. He said first strongly yesterday that hes innocent. So youll have to talk to him about that. So the white house not saying exactly when john kelly found out about the abuse claims. The Associated Press reporting that kelly became aware last fall when porter had trouble getting a security clearance. The white house saying kelly only became fully aware this past week. The a. P. Reporting white House Counsel don mcgann new about the accusations a year ago around the time President Trump took office but porter was deep in the president s inner circle. He helped write the state of