Chairman thompson the committee is meeting today to receive testimony on children in cbp custody, examining death, medical care procedures and improper spending. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. The committee is convening today to examine three critical, related, and deeply troubling issues. The terrible deaths of Young Children in the custody of customs and Border Protection, cbps failure to consistently implement the revised medical screening procedures it adopted after children died in its custody, and cbps improper expenditure of emergency funding appropriated by congress for the care of migrants. In december 2018, two children died in cbp custody. A sevenyearold girl named jakelin and an 8yearold boy named felipe. Last year, another three children died in cbp custody or shortly after being released. On january 4, 2019, i sent a letter to the department of Homeland Security requesting documents related to the deaths in 2018
We love you all over the state and just really appreciate your presence here today. Thank you so much. Dr. Biden thank you. Rep. Veasey absolutely. And congresswoman Eddie Bernice johnson. The congresswoman is one of our committee chairmen. Shes the chairperson of the science and Technology Committee and she represents the 30th Congressional District. I will be introducing her a little bit later, but i want to open up by saying over the past five months, the lives of working parents have really been turned upside down, especially our working moms. Daycares are closed, summer camps are closed, vacation bible schools arent open and mothers are out there multitasking. Theyre trying to do Conference Calls and zoom calls, just like we are today, and trying to take care of the kiddos. And we know that when school suddenly switched to distancelearning, that they had to drop everything that they were doing, including working, so they could help their kids on assignments. Look at our essential
That gives you a sense of the magnitude of the state of california and the magnitude of our responsibility to approach our response in a way that addresses the needs of different parts of the state of california, different regions. Accordingly, we of long talked about our approach to addressing the issues of covid19, it spread and our suppression strategies have to be from the frame, bottomup. We have talked about the fact that localism is determinative. We recognize local conditions are just inked and unique from one another and we recognize that conditions in far reaches of california and northern parts of the state are very different than in the San Francisco bay area and very different from the loss in los angeles region. And accordingly, we have afforded the ability for local Health Records Health Directors working collaboratively with advocates and elected officials to make determinations for themselves on when to move forward through our phased in approach. As many of you have h
These and many other sorts of Public Policy issues, one of our intellectuals. Thank you. Welcome, one and all. This session will examine the Civil Liberties issues that have been raised by Government Actions to content with the coronavirus pandemic. We will hear from four imminent legal scholars. One from new york law school, chairman of the american Civil Liberties union. School,f the ucla law host of the eponymous website of conspiracy julia of the university of Virginia School of law, who specializes in property, public finance, and constitutional law. Mia Love University of Virginia School of law, who specializes in comparative constitutional law and international law. Further information about each of them is available at the. Onference website our session will run up to 90 minutes, concluding not later than 5 15 eastern in the United States. We will have individual presentations and a general Panel Discussion and questions from attendees. When question time arrives, i will ask th
Gov. Walz good morning, everyone. This has been the most difficult week in minnesota in recent history and maybe in our entire history. In our streets. The ashes are symbolic of decades and generations of pain, of anguish, much like we failed unheard, much like we failed to hear george floyd as he pleaded for his life as the world watched by people sworn to protect him, his community, our state. Philando castile, silenced, unheard, so many other friends, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers senselessly died in our street. And now generations of pain is manifesting itself in front of the world, and the world is watching. One of the first people i called after seeing the video was valerie castile, philandos mother. We have become friends since the killing of philando. For those watching today who are not familiar, philando died in front of his loved one and his child and left them behind and the grieving mother who has become an advocate for justice, for reform, but more importantly an ad