Impact on the 2020 election. They also talk about how local communities address immigration and the immigration policies of the trump administration. And, what 2020 president ial candidates have the best plan to address immigration. This is about one hour. Here. Congresswoman, hi. Okay. There we go. Technical difficulties. Everyone. Rnoon, thank you so much for being here this afternoon. My name is laura lopez. Im a National Political and im for politico, thrilled to be here at the texas festival. Were going to have a great discussion this afternoon on politics, immigration, and the 2020 president ial election. Would love to welcome our panelists. Right here next to me is garcia, a an sylvia freshman democrat from texas. Her district is eastern houston. We have mayor ron of san ntonio, and our coexecutive director of the center for new ar democracy based in york city. For those of you joining us via live stream you can also follow twitter rsation on tribunestats19. Some of the stuffer
Or not they had any evidence what was there evidence to suggest that iran was in any way shape or form involved in those attacks on Saudi Aramco Oil facilities he said World Leaders told him that they had no evidence of that kind they simply did not think that yemens hooty fighters were capable of carrying out an attack of such magnitude and of such sophistication irans president said his response to that was that the information about the ground reality in the middle east in that region that the World Leaders had was simply outdated. And our correspondent roslyn jordan joins us now from the United Nations so do you think were hearing a shift in rhetoric from the iranians here and if so why. Well im not sure that there is a real shift and rhetoric certainly what you saw on thursday the u. S. State department issuing yet another round of sanctions this time. Against several brainy and high level government officials and their families essentially banning them from obtaining visas to com
The killing meaning mr sauer that catalonia advisor to Mohammed Bin Salman that that person has not been charged and hes not facing trial so those words dont mean much for me now the u. S. Is proposing to cut the number of refugees to its lowest level ever if the plan is adopted the number of allowed in over the next 12 months will be limited 218000 thats down from 30000 or lets take a closer look at how this proposal would work Officials Say 5000 people filling religious persecution would be resettled that also be a large number from iraq and Central America the balance would be people from other countries the new limit would apply from tuesday which is the beginning of the new Financial Year but to go ahead as more now from washington d. C. The u. S. President donald trump has made this a key Campaign Issue he wants to send a message to his core supporters that he is cracking down on immigration this goes a step further this will be the lowest number of refugees allowed into the u. S
The president was charged with similar types of coordination potential collusion with a Foreign Government to affect american politics so thats whats extraordinary about this is that President Trump allegedly engaged in a similar behavior with another leader a day after the motor reports release a u. N. Investigator has dismissed comments from the saudi con prince saying he gets responsibility for the killing of the journalists. And this kind of ma says mohammed bin solemn on how to handle his debts and saudi authorities have stifled their investigation awesome have bar reports now from new york. She spent months investigating the killing of solid journalist. And concluded it was deliberate. And extra judicial un special rapporteur to ugliness kalama also found credible evidence linking death to crown Prince Mohammed bin said. Old. A year after the killing of the saudi consulate in turkey the crown prince also known by his initials. American network p. B. S. He bears were sponsibility
One of our Public Offices who has joined us. David, thank you for being here this evening. As always speak pelosi is a champion of immigrant rights and immigrant needs, so we thank you for being here on her behalf. Okay, our next speaker is carol bisharat from kids in need of descents. Good evening. I am a direct representation attorney, my name is carol bisharat, for kids in need of defense and from our San Francisco i offices. We are a National Nonprofit that has ten offices across the country dedicated to the representation of unaccompanied minors, who are in proceedings for the Immigration Court. I have some prepared remarks, which i am willing to share, in an electronic fashion i will forward them to elaina for distribution to each of you. There is more information than i can relay in of short amount of time that i have to speak with you. There are so much to say, for what is going on on the ground, what kinds of changes both policy and procedures that have detrimentally affected