Welcome to a very important here ainley have berthing support the patient to have been Opening Statement and then to introduce the first panel with vr done the Senate Judiciary committee is holding a hearing will entitle their responses to the increase of religious chairman grassley welcome, everybody, to a very important hearing that we have. Thank you for being patient while we get started here. Ill have an Opening Statement. Senator feinstein will go, and then well go, ill introduce our first panel. Then when were done there go to the second panel and introduce that at that time. The Senate Judiciary committee today is holding a hearing that we entitled responses to the increase in religious hate crimes. This is a subject of great bipartisan interest in the committee. Religious hate crimes harm victims. And also have a great impact on communities. Many of these crimes would never have been committed but for hatred. They run counter to americas values such as religious freedom and to
Is one of the most extreme in the world with 4. 8 Million People or 40 of the population facing lifethreatening hunger. 2. 5 million displaced and the economy in freefall. Serious crime is now part of daily life. Aid workers and their supplies their targets as well. The violence in early july came about because the third president here was willing to work with the other to implement the Peace Agreement or to set up the security arrangements that were designed to prevent a return to fighting in juba. We saw the moment of greatest optimism since the signing of the august 2015 Peace Agreement. The establishment in late april at the Transitional Government could recite shattered by the irresponsibility and weaknesses of south sudan leaders here in both leaders lost control of forces during the moment of tremendous political fragility and government soldiers engaged in violence against civilian including attacks on south did these foreigners peered i would be remiss not to cause hearing pra
Rights from the churchs perspective. My understanding is obama meets regularly with Church Leaders and regularly with protestant leaders and catholic leaders at the bishops conference. The argument from the religious perspectives argument is that the policies are not humane. They are not fair. Migrants are treated fairly. The state has the right to deport somebody but its often the way its done. Family separation. Somebody picked up a work site in the children are left at home or their children were put into foster care and thats in another increasingly important phenomena. The separated families of the churches concerns are the conditions under which they travel, that they are provided with fair treatment, due process and you know if somebody arrives and works and earned citizenship they should be provided that opportunity to naturalize and become a citizen. Host Jacqueline Maria hagan how did you get involved in this work . Guest the particular project or the migration . Host in gene
From the 70s to the mid1990s. There is a lot of books. I think this one is looking at a post9 11, looking at this kind of rapid expansion, looking at different Civil Liberties issues and i would like to think that its you know, it covers new ground but its definitely on the shoulders of giants as they say. All this great work thats been done around border stuff for years and years and years. My other question is has there have been any interest among legislators in your book, in the issues that it has raised specifically from your work . Beto orourke is from el paso. I mean i dont know but i know beto orourke he is a congressperson based in el paso, texas and i believe he is pretty interested in it and we have had some backandforth. He is a u. S. Congressperson. I know it has reached his year now his desk or his ears and i imagine because he actually communicates with me about it, i imagine that hopefully, hopefully its been seen by other congresspeople as well. None of our congresspeo
Next david keith and Clive Hamilton debate the idea of scientifically manipulating the merman to address the threat of Global Warming. This is about an hour. Many thanks scott for that introduction and for the invitation to come and debate climate engineering with david here today. I want to talk a little bit about some of the implication but more about the social and political meaning of what it would mean to have a geoengineered planet and i want to draw on a bit of historical experiencexperienc e to get some idea of what that means. Now david has become the foremost advocate of geoengineering in response to Global Warming and in his new look a case for climate engineering if you put forward an innovative approach to solar geoengineering, that is the use of a fleet of planes to inject sulfuric acid into the upper atmosphere, the stratosphere to create a layer of tiny particles between the sun and the earth and i should point out that today we are going to be talking about this form o