Hello. Good evening. Its me, Jacob Rees Mogg on state of the nafion Jacob Rees Mogg on state of the nation tonight. Hes got a date for the Spring Budget, but will the chancellor, jeremy hunt, be announcing the scrappage of inheritance tax on the 6th of march. 7 thats what ill be arguing in my monologue, arguing for in my monologue, as it emerges nearly 400 it emerges that nearly 400 children the age of six children under the age of six were referred tavistocks were referred to the tavistocks controversial gender clinic. Ill be asking whether its ever all right for children this young to be referred for those sorts. With war sorts of consultations. With war raging in the middle east, ukraine has been somewhat forgotten about in recent months. There have been months. But there have been important developments there over christmas period, the over the christmas period, the ukrainians sunk ukrainians have sunk a key russian warship in the black sea, russians have taken sea, and the russia
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Texas officials discuss Border Security and unaccompanied immigrant children. On newsmakers, rajiv shah discusses ebola, and u. S. Foreign aid. Newsmakers on cspan. Next, a debate on what to do with undocumented immigrant children known as dreamers. It is the Texas Tribune festival in austin. This is an hour and 10 minutes. Good afternoon. Thank you for being here today. Im manny fernandez. Im the Houston Bureau chief for the new york times. And on behalf of the Texas Tribune, im very happy to welcome everyone to the Fourth Annual Texas Tribune festival and to our panel today, entitled what to do with the dreamers. Our panelists are george baldor, a dallas businessman who started a website supporting the texas d. R. E. A. M. Act, also known as hb 1403. The website is keephb1403. Com. Veronica escobar [applause] the county judge of el paso county. She become the top elected official in texas this sixth largest county in texass six largest county in 2011. We also have gabby pacheco, Prog
Good afternoon. Thank you for being here today. Im manny fernandez. Im the Houston Bureau chief for the new york times. And on behalf of the Texas Tribune, im very happy to welcome everyone to the Fourth Annual Texas Tribune festival and to our panel today, entitled what to do with the dreamers. Our panelists are george baldor, a dallas businessman who started a website supporting the texas d. R. E. A. M. Act, also known as hb 1403. The website is keephb1403. Com. Veronica escobar [applause] the county judge of el paso county. She become the top elected official there in 2011. We also have gabby pacheco, Program Director of a National College Scholarship Fund for undocumented students called the dream. Us. Last april, she became the first undocumented latina to testify before congress. [applause] we also have with us jerry patterson, the texas land commissioner. Hes a former state senator who helped the Texas Republican Party adopt a more moderate position on immigration in its 2012 of
Conservative activists and lawmakers will try once more this coming legislative session to stop what has become known as the texas dream act. The texas Republican Partys official 2014 platform calls for repealing the law. Nationally, meanwhile, comprehensive Immigration Reform has stalled in washington, as dreamers and other advocates are pressing congress for an overhaul that would create a formal path to citizenship for young people who came here as children. Dreamers have become an influential political voice, appearing on the cover of Time Magazine and playing a key role in shaping immigration policy. Gabby, id like to start with you, if i could. Sure. Who are the dreamers, and how many are there in the United States . So there are about 2. 1 million dreamers who came to the United States when they were children. They are usually categorized as people who came to the United States before the age of 16. And we have seen different d. R. E. A. M. Act legislation. So the majority of th