Department is responsible for investigating the service determining if children should be in the home or removed from the home on a temporary basis while working with the children and identifying safety issues and reunifying children if possible. If not we determine a permanent plan for the child through legal guardianship or adoption. All children in need of protection of abuse and neglect are eligible to get services and its the legal responsibility to seek out relatives to serve as a viable placement option for the youth within the United States and within their home country so thats what our staff would do, locate relatives and place them with them. At this point family and Children Services has not seen an increase of the children come being to our attention. Many children are being placed with relatives. We have been in discussions with the state department of social services that indicated that is where the federal government is placing these children is relative and family othe
I think eric did a great with job of talking about some of the problems that we see, that economic inequality seems to breed political inequality. We also have Health Inequalities which is, you know, tightly related to income. And i think what we should be focusing on is the welfare of our nation. And, i mean, that does include focusing on the welfare of those at the bottom of the income distribution, but we shouldnt lose sight that there are people in the middle who really, you know, have seen their incomes stagnate over the last 20 or 30 years. The body language suggests that robert would like to [laughter] i mean, obviously, i worked in the poverty programs for 18 years, and im really focused on the bottom. I will offer this, though, there are some solutions on the income inequality issue. And one of them is and im a believer in the transparency with regard to the ratios between ceos and the workers. That rule has been passed. Sec is trying to enforce it. Thatll with be a good thing
Government that theyre unfamiliar with and, you know, i think its great that the high number of latino members of your force that you have. How do you make sure that theyre really truly grounded and what it is that these people may be trying to or want to communicate but maybe afraid to communicate to operate under the corridor of law. Yes, we are familiar with the various communities in mexico. At the individual agent level, i cannot speak to that. What i can say is that they are trained to be consistent in terms of how we process people and to treat people with dignity and respect. That is a core principle of cdp. I cant speak to the individual offices of assessment. But i can speak to what we ask them to do. This question is for mr. Jones. And it kind of follows up on the direction in which commissioner yaki has been hinting. But it would appear that the custom and border officers are critical players in this immigration process. And the screening and the selection and the training
Translation question and answer system, do you have that in place . And how do you assure that the answers that youre getting are real. I can tell you, from my own experience dealing with Asylum Seekers in other countries sometimes you need to ask. There are cultural issues about can you really ask them about rape, can you ask them about other family members . Are they afraid that any answer that they give to you is going to then be communicated back to their home country. So they tend not to be as truthful as they should be. I think the chairmans question pertained to mexican nationals. So, with regard to mexican nationals, all of the Border Patrol agents speak spanish. And so thats the thing we focus on as an agency that we are con sis tent and that we are fair and ensure that everyone is properly interviewed. Do you have someone, for example, who understands country conditions in a certain region of mexico, in columbia, in venezuela venezuela, in nicaragua, there are people there wh
Respond also to some of the questions and issues that have has arisen. The aba is the largest voluntary Bar Association in the United States and one of the largest voluntary professional organizations in the world. The commission on immigration, and ill try to be clear which Commission Im speaking of when i use that term. The immigration coordinates abas efforts to ensure fair treatment and Due Process Rights for all immigrants and refugees in the u. S. That work takes the form of policy advocacy, Educational Programming and operating pro bony notice bono. Immigration detention is particularly important to the aba for two reasons. One impedes the access to counsel. The fact of generally remote detention locations much less the conditions that pertain in those facilities makes it extremely difficult for people to access pro bono representation. Its particularly hard for pro say se people. Imagine being in a Detention Center, not speak english and coming forward with crabtive effort tran