Possibilities. My own office at the state department has had a pretty consistent budget thanks to the congress to support Civil Society actors in a variety of countries and, of course, the National Endowment for democracy remains the pree moore institution in the world premier institution in the world for targeting assistance to democrats usually many tough places. So they know they have support from the outside community, from the International Community. So let me mention a couple of things just to wind up this opening scene setter. One is that i think we in the United States need to appreciate the Important Role that congress plays. While we disparage its occasional polarization and inability to resolve certain major things, the congress has been a major contributor to american democracy programming in a lot of ways. Not least in the creation of my part of the state department. You know, the bureau for democracy, human rights and labor was created 30 years ago over the objections of
Addressing, that he had to enforce the law even if that meant deporting hard cases with minors involved. Sometimes there is inherent injustice where you were born. No president can solve that. Obama said, but president s must send the message that you cant just show up on the border, plead for asylum or Refugee Status and hope to get it. That anyone can come in means effectively you dont have any kind of system, obama said we are a nation with borders that must be enforced. Effectively the proposal for 3. 7 billion that has come over has nothing to do with dispelling the idea and the belief in these Central American countries that they can come here, if they get to our border, that they can stay. They cant stay. They cannot stay. If they believe theyre victims of persecution, go to our consulate, go to our embassy. But we cannot, we cannot have this unlimited flow of individuals. And finally, id just ill yield to my colleagues. But what about people in other parts of the world . Dont t
2012 and almost 25,000 in 2013. As of july 6, over 50,000 children have been apprehended and placed in our care in fy 14. To address the associated challenges, a twopronged strategy has been put together. One is to drive down the length of time the children remain in shelters. The other is to expand our shelter capacity. When it comes to time, the children that are in our care, we have made significant progress. Since 2011 when it took 75 days to reduce that time to 35 and are continuing to make progress to move in more quickly. About 1700 beds and since january, and we have also opened a temporary shelters with three military races across the country. While temporary solutions were necessary in the short term, makeshift solutions do not make longterm fiscal sense. Morerary shelters cost than the permanent shelters. As we move forward, the reality is that we dont have enough beds and we dont have sufficient resources to continue to add beds to ensure that the children are not staying i
Traditionally summer camp has been used to over create recruit. On todays program, we are delighted to have two participants that were part of the taiwan 2013 project, and share with us their experiences living and working in taiwan for the summer. They are gina holly. Welcome to the program. Thank you. And david wang. Thank you. Were going to start off with a question to two of you, to tell us a little bit about yourselves. My name is gina holly. Im 22 years old. Im from los angeles, california, and i just graduated from the university of california berkeley. Very good school. Also where i got my phd and law degree. [laughter] david, tell us about yourself. My name is david. My family comes from toronto, canada. My school is the university of toronto. Also a very good school. [laughter] never heard of it. Im studying contemporary Asian Studies and political science. What are your plans after graduation . I would like to get some reallife experience first and work a little bit before i
Start because there was never any pow tore a crucial signal beacon . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were following two major score stories right now. Thousands of protesters taking to the streets in Madison Wisconsin after the Fatal Police Shooting of an unarmed teenager. Were following the latest details. Major battles are under bay right now on two fronts in iraq. In the north Kurdish Forces back are advancing against isis. Further south, iraqi troops and shiite are gang ground against isis near takrit as americas top general arrives in iraq to assess the situation. Well talk with democrat senator tim kaine, our correspondents and analysts and guests are standing by. Lets begin with barbara starr. She has the latest. The chairman of the joints chief of staff landed in baghdad today for consultations. Iraq has been relying on iran for help in many of its recent gains. General everyonecy perhaps reminding the arook kays that the u. S. Is putting a lot of muscle power of