This hearing will come to order i would first say the witnesses for taking the time for your thoughtful testimony and how i say the audience members. Im not sure why youe are not e house i but we really apprecia appreciate, you must been paid staff. But i appreciate everybody coming here. This is from my standpoint, the hearing title is an president migration at the southern border being in review. But what id like to do is to actually start with a decade in review. For everybody to iconic, is the chart that i have been really updating are probably the last three or four years. As you can on the committee. Important to lay out what the history news men. Key moments and policy changes, then i would certainly argue contributed to what you consider an ongoing prices even though they made some progress. But that chart reflects all minors and people coming to this country as family units. Earlier versions only focused on sinful market children and family members. So initially, and 2009 to 1
It must be paid staff. Everyone coming here. I would like to start with the decade in review. I refer everybody to my chart. This is a chart i have been updating for the last 34 years. It is important to lay out what the history has been. Certainly from my standpoint. Some key policy changes. They contributed to what i consider an ongoing crisis even though we have made some process progress. That chart reflects all minors and people coming to this country as family units. Focused onsions only Central American children and family members. 3000, 4000we had unaccompanied children. We werent even keeping track of families because it wasnt a problem. Was a similar moment. It was the issuance of the daca memorandum. Traffickersby human to help incentivize people. They would tell them, the u. S. Has changed your policy. That certainly started something. To 2015. Ard forward 2014 was the year when president obama very accurately described a humanitarian crisis at the border. 137,000 unaccompa
Hell are in eastern iraq and afghanistan there is still cloud has produced significant maybe active seas and rain that is the big of course most of iran is dry but there are clouds showing of the levant of parts of egypt for example sana and oversee over turkey the season afterward is slowly changing but the changes are great yet except in turkey the temperatures slowly dropping down in for example i wouldnt they resent the 28th of baghdad still at 41 terence going up to 30 so the warm sun prevails there is no particularly strong breeze anyway humidity still fairly high around the gulf states this green here is telling weve had some good sun storms recently in the usa a particularly among the high ground and just across the side of the strait in southern iraq they are easily repeatable during sunday and monday but probably disappear after that otherwise little changes the potential of showers in yemen disappears they have the feast going away if it hasnt already left. Active weather in
Inventory data at the bottom of the hour. Brent crude holding just below 59 a barrel. Snapping a two day win streak, i would not call that weakness but moving slightly lower. Guy you and i are of the same mind because i think we need to just view the rally that we are getting in equities with a little bit of wariness and weariness as well. We are basically where we were three days ago. People have been getting excited about this rally this morning. I think you take a look at the mediumterm chart, maybe you would get a little bit more perspective about that view. We are up by 7 10 of a percent. European stocks are up a little bit. One thing i will say is the sector breakdown eventually, the sectors that are winning today are the ones that are most exposed. The stoxx 600 up by 1 10 of 1 . We are seeing some of the market currencies, the rand and the ruble trading reasonably strong. The east africa rand is up. Our top turning down to story, china reportedly still open to a partial trade d
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