Studies. So good afternoon. Im the director and associate fellow of the Americas Program set csis and it is my pleasure to welcome you today. We are very excited to host such a distinguished panel to discuss this topic. Last december, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, better known as amlo, took office in mexico. He won the election in july 2018 in a landslide victory on an leftwing platform that promised to among other things promote the respect of human rights, improve the economy, work to end ongoing drug war and address corruption at all levels of government. For many mexicans and was rep centered a paradigm shift from the governance of the past two decades and sees himself as a remedy to ineffective government responses to corruption and violence. Yesterday marks the First Anniversary of his inauguration and during his first year in office amyl has enjoyed a record high approval rating. However in the past year hes also seen challenges on many fronts including mexicos security, economy
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Andd stage on straw city where e have to be constantly chasing it down. Slashsh, poison, burn. We spent 150 billion each year treating cancer, yet a a patient with cancer is as likely to die of it today, with a few exceptions, as one would 50 years ago. Today we spend the hour with renowned cancer doctor dr. Azra raza, author of the new book the first cell and the human costs of pursuing cancer to the last. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The pentagon has released new emails revealing how the White House Budget Office ordered the pentagon to halt all military minuteskraine only 91 after president trumps july 25 telephone call with the ukraine president zelensky. The heavily redacted emails shows Michael Duffey telling pentagon officials t trump hadad become personally interested in aid and had ordered the hold. The emails were released after the center for Public Integrity filed a freedom of informati
Cbps statistics for september. Numbers, thank you to the minute women of the customs and Border Protection for their tireless efforts through fiscal year 2019 dealing with this unprecedented crisis. They do a phenomenal job securing our nations borders, enforcing laws, saving lives and maintaining their system in rule of law. In doing so with humanity and compassion. This country is safer because of their efforts, sacrifices and dedication. This past sunday we lost a Border Patrol agent in the line of duty will he was patrolling the tucson sector. The 129th agent who has died in the line of duty. His life and dedication to follow service to protecting this great nation, i can promise you this. He will be missed but never forgotten. Expressing, this past fiscal year, cbp faced staggering levels of illegal crossings. While the comprehensive numbers will be forthcoming with respect to the numbers and statistics for 2019, cpbs enforcement oneons totaled nearly million in fiscal year 2019.
Mr. Morgan good morning and thank you all for being here today. As the commissioner of customs and Border Protection, im pleased to announce the official release of cbps southwest Border Migration statistics for the month of august. And ive said this many times, since congress has failed and continue to fail to pass meaningful legislation to address the crisis at the border, which would ultimately stop children from being used as passports and end the cartels ability to exploit this population, as well as our laws, the Trump Administration has taken a number of unilateral actions, unprecedented actions, that were going to discuss today. But, first, lets discuss the results of the administrations incredible efforts. During the month of august, cbp apprehended, or deemed inadmissible, a total of 64,000 individuals. For july, if you recall, that number was just over 82,000, which represents a decline of 22 . Moreover, the august numbers reflects and this is critical the august numbers ref