Subcommittee will examine the Current Situation at us cis must not be overlooked, record high case backlogs, policy changes make it harder to obtain extremely important matters that deserve careful attention. These problems have a direct impact on countless individuals, families, students, business and other entities such as hospitals and research institutions. Im sure others on the subcommittee will agree, constituents on an almost daily basis. All the us cis has struggled with backlogs since its creation the agency reports, and 2. 4 million cases, this represents 344 increase on the backlog of cases. The largest net backlog since 2003, grounding to a halt in the aftermath of the 9 11 terror attacks. Backlogs and processing delays create reallife problems for people trying to navigate complex immigration systems. Imagine a Domestic Violence survivor unable to escape abusers because there is language. Startup company abandoning a key project that will lead to substantial job creation b
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In the field. This is live coverage on cspan2. For being here. I also thank you, we have the administration here today, especially our ambassador at large, cindy dire, thank you for being here as well. You know, more than 20 years ago, Congress Approved and president signed historic legislation that i authored known as Trafficking Victims protection act of 2000. This bipartisan landmark law created a comprehensive whole of Government Initiative that combat sex and labor trafficking in the United States and around the world. It also established dozens and dozens of new programs to protect victims, prosecute traffickers and prevent Human Trafficking in the first place, the three ps. Looking at the progress made over the years, its hard to believe the Trafficking Victims protection act was met with a serious opposition, a wall of opposition, for those in such of a problem including the media, many exaggerating, that we were talking about the prevalence of this crime not only around the wo
we are live in salma, alabama. and a community that served as a major turning point in the civil rights movements. my question, is are there lessons from 1965 that we still need to learn today? plus, trump and, cpac the conservative conference is over. former president making a typical bombastic speeches he attempts to retake the white house. does he really have the momentum to capture the republican augmentation? and later, a spike in child labor with migrant children as young as 13, being used to clean blood in this houses. i want to know what the biden administration is doing to solve these. problems all of that and more is coming up. a good sunday morning. here i am katie phang. we begin the show with remembrance of a major turning point in the civil rights movement. biden is set to arrive in, selma alabama today to help commemorate the 58th anniversary of bloody sunday. march 7th, 1965, a group of 600 civil rights demonstrators led by activists john louis gil b
ice, wind chill alerts. plus, the january 6th committee just released the final report recommending donald trump be barred from ever holding office again. and for the first time in public, vladimir putin says what the world has known all along, he s wagging war on ukraine. it is friday. welcome to our viewers in the you states and around the world. i m christine romans. let s begin with this. a christmas gut punch from mother nature as a once in a generation storm blasts across the country with the worst yet to come. more than half the u.s. population is under some kind of weather alert. from florida west to washington state. more than 200 million people are under wind chill alerts. more than 80 million under winter weather alerts. more than 40 million other bracing for high winds. needles to say it is a mess for holiday travelers. thousands of flights were canceled thursday. nearly 2700 flights already canceled today with hundreds more delayed. and look at power outage