The committee will come to orderment good morni o order. Good morning to everyone. Without objection the chair is allowed to declare a recess at anytime. Ill recognize myself for my Opening Statement. Im honored to be conveeting todays hearing, my very first as chair woman. As we continue to mourn the loss of our friend and colleague, elijah cummings. I am mindful of his life long mission to seek not only common ground, but higher ground. With that in mind, im very pleased to hold today tfs hearing on an issue we have been fighting for for many years, the need for comprehensive paid family and medical leave. Its important for people to understand the Current Situation in our country. Right now, were one of only two nations in the world that does not provide our workers with any form of paid family or medical leave. The United States and papua new guinea. I remember when i was pregnant with my first child and i asked my offices about leave policy. And do you know what they said . Leave,
To help these communities. This is an hour 20 minutes. Is this on . Can you hear me . Excellent. Welcome back. While youre all walking in and settling down thank you. I just wanted to say a couple words about what we do here at georgetown in this field before i welcome my panel and introduce everybody. Im andy. I direct the asylum films here. We represent Asylum Seekers in deportation hearings. Actually handle a case from beginning to end for Asylum Seekers all over the world. My colleague is here, as well, who i work with. Dina, is dina here . May be at some point. We have three lauries each semester and 12 students. The clinic has been doing this for, i guess, 24 years. I think phil started the asylum part of this in 1995. We also have courses on immigration and refugee law as well as we started last year to send volunteers to texas, to the two major detention facilities that are housing women with children, detaining women and children, to help prepare the women for credible fear in
Everybody. Im andy schoen holtz. Our students represent Asylum Seekers and deportation hearings. And actually handle a case from beginning to end for Asylum Seekers all over the world. My colleague pfizer saed is well and dina sharouk may be here. We have three lawyers each semester, 12 students, the clinic has been doing this for i guess 24 years. I think phil started the asylum part of this in 1995. We also have courses on immigration and refugee law as well as we started last year to send volunteers to texas to the two major detention facilities that are housing women with children, detaining women and children to help prepare the women for a credible fear interviews and to do other work to assist the families. And we are sending two groups again, 14 volunteers, we went to break and spring break down there, thanks to a georgetown alum who has funded that travel and we have a human rights bracket couple that has engaged on these issues for years. This year its looking at the root cau
Secretary mcaleenan emailed his speech to press after he left with a note attached. And were going to baa to go back to the conference with a panel discussion, possible regional approaches to solving it. This is live coverage on cspan2. To send volunteers to texas to the two major detention facilities that are housing women with children, detaining women and children to help prepare the women for credible fear interviews and to do other work to assist the families. In our hemisphere and in particular, its examining one of the main things that what theyre looking at is this see third country issue whichbrings us to our panel. Because we thought it would be a Good Opportunity to hear from these experts with respect to the humanitarian and migration crisis that has been going on in Central America and the need for regional approaches. We have three experts who will give us different analysis to help address different parts of this problem and that is ive asked anthony fontez, an expert on
Cspan. Org. If you are on the go, listen to our live coverage using the free cspan radio app. Dorian set toane hit florida this weekend, republican Governor Ron Desantis briefed reporters this morning on preparations. He spoke about his conversation with President Trump regarding fars needs for the hurricane. He also addressed reports on femas funding. Good morning. I want to thank ken graham, National Hurricane center for showing us around and giving us his insight. As you know, i recently issued executive order 19, 189, regarding Hurricane Dorian. Declared a state of emergency in 26 counties in the state of florida. Be likely adding to that in light of some of the additional forecast paired that is additional forecast paired one of the additional thing the state allows us to do is to get more fuel into the gas stations. We have heard report of field shortages already in places like brevard county. This order allows more fuel to come. It allows us to mobilize the National Guard. With