Thank you for being here this afternoon. As we continue to monitor the challenging situation on the southern border we look forward to hearing your perspective on i. C. E. s operational and Funding Priorities and requirements. As chair of this subcommittee i am committed to ensuring the integrity of our borders and strengthening our immigration system. But i am equally committed to making sure we do so according to all of our laws and in a way that exemplifies our american values. In particular we must assure that in accordance with our laws and values those fleeing must have equal opportunities to seek asylum. We must get this balance right and i believe we can if we work together. It is a false choice to believe more migrants need to be unnecessarily detained and that cruel and exclusionary immigration laws need to be enacted in order to increase security in our country. Our own constitution, federal law and several International Agreements serve as the foundation for the right and p
Immigration enforcement practices. This is about two hours and ten minutes. Thank you for your patience and willingness to stay until 4 00 oclock. We appreciate it. Today we welcome matthew albans, the u. S. Immigration and custos enforcement. They stand for being here this afternoon. As we continue to monitor the challenging situation on the southern border, we look forward to hearing your perspective on the funding priority and requirements. As cheers of the subcommittee, i am committed to ensuring the integrity and strengthening integration system. But i am equally committed to making sure we do so, according to a way that is a bullfight our american values. In particular, we must assure in accordance with our values, both violence and persecution have meaningful opportunities to seek asylum. We must get this balance right and i believe that we can if we Work Together. Its a choice to believe that more migrants need to be unnecessarily detained and cruel and exclusionary immigration
I would like to say a couple words about the revolution and the history of intelligence. This is one subject that is vastly underrepresented in historical literature. Most of us went through school and learned about the revolution. Even at the college level, we do not delve into the importance of intelligence during the american revolution. This is quite problematic. If you look at the advantages of the british over the americans, the british at almost every advantage. They had a modern professional army that had been battle colonies didas the colon not. The americans had a small Continental Army that could not really be counted on. The british of the greatest navy in the world. The americans did not have a navy to speak of. We have privateers. Pirates, essentially, that we gave the ability to steal and pillage for their pay. Most americans did not actually support independence. Less than half of continental americans support independence. Thousands fought for the british. And many of
Good morning, madame chair and members of the committee. Before we start, lets hear from the b. L. A. Dan gonchar. The proposed budgets for fiscal year 2020 is. more than the original fiscal 1819 budget. The dps proposed 11 million budget for notice cal year 2021 is 215524 or 1. 8 less than the mayors proposed fiscal year 1920 budget of 12 million. A recommended reduction to the proposed budget toele thats 772,000 in fiscal year 1920. All the recommended reductions are ongoing savings. These reductions would still allow an increase of 35323 or. 3 of the departments 1920 budget. Our recommended reductions for the proposed budget total 74261 in fiscal year 2021. All of the 74261 in recommended reductions are ongoing savings. My understanding is that we do not have agreement with the department. We have two recommendations. They are both related to upward substitutions of two substitutions. One is proposed upward substitution of a 7205 chief stationary engineer to a 7120 buildings and Gro
We are the custodian of the second most valuable assets of San Francisco. Thats the value of our collection that im constantly reminded of. So i think they were clearly working very hard to make that lower the cost of to the city. But, on the other hand, with must the city covers less than onethird of our operating budgets. As the city increases and the operating sbunlts getting smaller. Our objective over the years, we decreased a percentage of city support. Eventually we get to whether ideally we all want to get to. Thank you. Thank you. It is an important part of San Francisco, fabric of our city. Its just hard for me to recognize the departments request as opposed to the b. L. A. Recommendations when our other museums are only receiving about a 10 per visit or subsidy. So, that is my comments and what i noticed in looking for my documents. Thank you for your answer. Thank you very much. What do you say in response to what the b. L. A. Recommendations are. Thank you for the opportun