Necessarily changes. By the late 18 hundreds illegality essentially, as charles pointed out, mint, meant asian, this nefarious group of people from asia and were coming to take jobs, plan opium in the United States and generally the boschdebauched the morals of the United States through asian prostitution, for example like the 1875. The page act is directed toward this part of chinese prostitution coming into the United States and the blushing them also places like San Francisco and the surrounding areas. But i wonder even has now, we dont necessarily, although you think about the Campaign Rhetoric of jeb bush, when i was thinking about 1st tourism i was not talking about latinos. I was talking about asians. Somehow that made it better in his mind. Obviously as aa general matter we have replaced that group for which we have this animus with regard to immigration and the way in which we now think about the latino population in some sense and immigration question even though it does not
Backdrop of significant civil rights advancement in the United States including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights act of 1965, ten years on the heels of brown versus board of education. So, what is the lesson we can draw . One is that the Immigration Law for the future in our current push for comprehensive Immigration Reform should also take that frame of a civil rights legislation which is the civil rights project of our time and will continue to be as long as we do not as long as we avoid addressing this problem of illicit mess and reality. Just a word or two to build on that. He has nicely framed this question of again. But, and i think it really is the key, but in terms of if its fair to call Immigration Law a civil rights issue, ii would argue absolutely, in light of the types of mechanisms that have been deployed by the state against foreignborn persons and there are clear parallels between the experience of africanamericans, latinos, and other disadvantaged grou
And i just want to make one further comment. I know this misunderstanding, but there is a reason we do this the way that we do. In my state of oklahoma we will list a number of projects. People going out in transportation districts in the state of oklahoma, make there own priorities so that my job is not so much to see what can be done in a state of oklahoma but where the priorities come from the state. People just overlook that. That is one of the systems it does seem to work well. Hopefully we we will be able to do a good a good job with this bill. Any further comments you want to make. Mr. Chair, mr. Chair, i want to thank you and the Committee Members. You you have a tough job and it is an incredibly important job. The governors will partner with you in any way that can be useful to get predictability, get the trust fund reauthorized and give a certainty. Within your states. That is that is so important that we do that. Absolutely. There is another thing that you can do apply the p
[ room noise ] okay. All our new mayors that are in the audience, please stand up. We need to see you and know who you are. [ applause ] all right. We know this group will be instrumental in defining our priorities and helping this organization go forward. I am now very pleased to bring to the podium one of those rookie mayors. She is from the great city the District Of Columbia. Mayor bowser served as a City Council Member for eight years prior to being elected. For yearly 35 years the conference has been fully supportive of full Voting Rights for the District Of Columbia. [ applause ] mayors lets give a round of applause for Muriel Bowser thank you. Well, good afternoon, mayors. And welcome to your nations capital, my hometown, our capital city, washington, d. C. And thank you, mayor johnson, for your kind introduction. But most importantly for your leadership of this conference and your great city. Im honored to stand before you as mayor of the District Of Columbia and bring you gre
Will say well, we have a different core ethical values in europe. Thats great okay. And greece . In europe generally. Ro romania . No offense to those countries, but we have a different value system here. We dont need all those rules and regulations because we know whats right and wrong. Well, i think we need a certain amount of regulation of law but we also have to have people going into Public Service that remember why they went into it, which is Public Service. Maybe to shrink government but also to solve problems. And they forget that sometimes because absolute power corrupts absolutely sometimes, theyre pursuing things for themselves their family. They forget. And this class that i teach we start out with some philosophy from madison and others to talk about that, because it is something in your lives that you have to figure out what youre willing to do. And you will face that. I have faced that. Youll face it and youll have to determine whats right and wrong, and theres no someti