Over that 50 billion threshold and would save us some supervisory resources, this isnt a musthave. On living wills, the very largest banks in the country are even larger today than they were during the financial crisis, the living wills provision of dodd frank was to make sure the banks never threaten the economy again by giving regulators addition additional and only the fdic took the official position that the wills were not credible. The feds decision not to join the fdic has slowed both regulators ability to take additional action. Why would the fed voluntary give up additional authorities to force changes at problem banks . So, we took the position that this was a completely new process, and we stated this when we put out guidance on the living will process that we expected to have to work with firms for a few rounds in order to understand what we needed to see in a plan and to give firms reasonable guidance on our expectations. Last summer that is why we declined to join the fdic
Problem after problem after problem and nothing we seemed to do seemed to be able to fix it. Moving antoine there was the right call. Hes dramatically improved production in almost every aspect of baltimore since hes been there. Its kind of like if you want to replace an infantry commander at ft. Riley, kansas, you dont go out and look at a bunch of applicants, you say who is my best infantry colonel or general promotable that i can put in that position. Antoine was the person in that case. If you could go back in time would you still have signed off all the moves highlighted in the Inspector Generals report . If i could go back in time i still would have made all the moves, yes. Thank you, mr. Chairman, i yield back. Mr. Pummill, is there any reason why you could not inform this committee of what the proposed actions are . Im sorry, congressman . Is there any reason you cant inform this committee as to what the proposed actions are . I was told by our Legal Advisers right before this
To yellow that means you start. Two minutes remaining youre going to see a yellow light. Unlike when were driving instead of running yellow light you will speed up though, because the red light starts soon. When the red light hits, you have to stop. Were trying to provide as much time as possible for interaction. I know youll help me abide by that. Once the opportunity comes, be as concise as possible. Finally the record of this hearing is going to remain open 30 days. If panelists or members would like to submit materials they can either mail them to u. S. Commission on civil rights, office of civil rights evaluation at 131 im sorry 1331 pennsylvania Avenue Northwest. Thats 1331 pennsylvania Avenue Northwest suite 1150 washington, d. C. 20425 or via email at Public Comments at usccr. Gov. With those business of housekeeping out of the way, let me introduce our first panel. Our first panelist megan mack, director of the office of civil rights and liberties at the department of Homeland
Inherently vulnerable so we placed a high priority on identifying any protection concerns unaccompanied children from contiguous companies who dont present protection concerns excuse me under trafficking reauthorization act of 2008 when dhs encounters unaccompanied child from contiguous country such as mexico, the child is screened to identify potential victims of Human Trafficking and determine whether the child has a fear of persecution if returned to his or her home country. Dhs as a matter of policy con ducks this screening on all unacomp anied children regardless of country of origin. Well come back and ask you questions on those topics, i promise. Thank you. Chairman castro, thank you and distinguished members of civil rights, thank you for allowing me to be here today. I appreciate the opportunity to speak with you about actions of Border Protection to implement standards to prevent tech and respond to sexual abuse and assault in confinement facilities. We refer to them as dhs p
I believe i can to the extent its not privileged. I would imagine it shouldnt be privileged but id be surprised if a document like that would be privileged. Im sure we can work out a situation where you can provide that to us. Okay. But it may well be in terms we dont need filled out one, just blank one to see what kind of questions you are asking. I would ask, have a moment hcr working with ice reviewing the form. I dont know where that process is but i know the form has been subject people have had a look at it. I think its googleable even if the government doesnt release it. It is a public form. I cant remember the number. I appreciate that. Recently received here at the commission a number of complaints, copies of complaints that were submitted involving religious freedom submitted by arab American American Arab Antidiscrimination Committee involving religious freedom at the stewart facility. Are any of you aware of these complaints . Its very possible my organization has gotten th