Washing up on mediterranean beaches. And refugees have been in the news for the past few years, particularly related to the crisis in syria, but refugees are being uprooted by conflict all around the world. So were not just talking about refugees coming from syria but from other wartorn regions. Especially in the past a couple of years, it has also been very difficult to ignore the public response to refugees. And Refugee Resettlement, like so many other topics today, has become a polarizing topic. On one hand, opposition to refugees has been fierce and even hostile. Politicians at the local, state, and federal level have linked refugees to terrorism and have pursued antirefugee policies in the name of National Security. The most famous of these measures is president Donald Trumps executive orders which ground the federal Refugee Program virtually to a halt in january 2017. His imposition of what is widely known as the refugee ban shortly after taking office initiated one of the sharpe
And if you have been following the news in recent years, i imagine that you, like me, have found it difficult to ignore the topic of refugees. This is an image of a refugees experience, fleeing communist vietnam in 1975. In many ways it reminds us of images that we might see on the news today. Its hard to ignore the human stories of families perishing at sea. Refugees are suffocating in meat trucks. Theyre crowding onto leaky boats. Theyre drowning. The bodies of those who are unable to cross to safety are washing up on mediterranean beaches. And refugees have been in the news for the past few years, particularly related to the crisis in syria, but refugees are being uprooted by conflict all around the world. So were not just talking about refugees coming from syria but from other wartorn regions. Especially in the past a couple of years, it has also been very difficult to ignore the public response to refugees. And Refugee Resettlement, like so many other topics today, has become a po
49. 1 billion in discretion fundi funding and the disaster of the relief fund. Today we welcome chad wolf, the acting secretary of the department of Homeland Security. Thank you for being with us. Mr. Secretary, the fy 21 budget proposes 49. 7 billion in discretionary funding for the department of Homeland Security. This is a cut of 750 million below the current year level. I want to be clear, absent of any in acted law to affect such a transfer, this subcommittee will continue to include funding f for the secret service. When including funding for the secret service for the total, the budget request for fy 21 is 1. 78 billion above the current year level. There is something of the proposed budget that i believe will find strong bipartisan support. However there are also proposals we should not expect to see funded in the house bill. Among those are funding for border barriers and the expansion of capacity. Particularly in light of high priority needs that just continues to hire custom
2019. Heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The mayor recently had a fundraiser that was held in a wine cave full of crystals. Rival candidates take aim at mayor pete. They dont have to go shake the money tree in the wine cave. I have never even before to a wine cave. Im literally the only person on this stage whos not a millionaire or a billionaire. Reporter republicans accusing democrats of getting cold front after nancy pelosi says shes waiting to send the impeachment articles democrats are too afraid to even transmit their shoddy work product to the senate. Reporter a deadly explosion rocked south philadelphia. More than 100 firefighters battled the flames that raged for hours. It could have been a lot worse. Were hoping it doesnt get any worse. Reporter police in rhode island are looking for the motive in a deadly shooting at a housing complex for the elderly and disabled. Reporter police have released disturbing video of a woman getting purse snatched, then dragged b
The 2015 usa freedom act banned bulk collection of private records. The Senate Judiciary committee recently held a hearing on reauthorizing the legislation. Among the witnesses were officials from the fbi, the Justice Department and the nsa. This is two hours. 2015. We have two panels, basically, four parts of the act. I want the panel to tell us the good, the bad and the ugly why we need these four people, why we need to reauthorize the program n your view, what happens if we dont. Would you accept any changes . What would those changes be. And other than recite your testimony, im very interested in hearing from the National Security perspective how the usa freedom act of 2015 is still relevant in 2019 and beyond and the tools available, how theyre relevant to the fight were still in. I would end with this. Baghdadi is dead but the cause lives. The effort to penetrate our country is ongoing every day. Terrorists groups with a lot of different names are trying to come here to do us har