He currently serves as the chief of on question operations in the u. S. Border patrol headquarters in washington, d c mr. Hastings . Thank you. It is my honor to represent the men and women of Border Patrol before you today as they are hard at work addressing the Current Crisis on the border. Aliens,ting illegal drugs, cash and weapons at the border is a key component of u. S. Border security, and by extension, our National Security. Cartels and other Transnational Criminal Organizations are a threat that requires governance of strategy and in aggressive approach across government. I am sorry to report the Country Vision to this government effort is currently strained as we are forced to devote 4060 of our manpower to the humanitarian flow that serves as a lucrative a business for smuggling organizations. We are overwhelmed by the sheer volume of apprehensions and cannot conduct indepth interviews that provide intelligence on smuggling and trafficking networks. We are distracted with t
An eight minute to nine minute break, so we could make this quick. There is still purpose in the back and if you need to use the restrooms but they are on the outside, so thank you. [indiscernible voices] [indiscernible voices] ok. All right. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for coming back from break. We have had some great panels is morning and we are happy to be invited to participate this morning as well. I am a victim just as Program Specialist for the office of victims of crime at the department or justice Human Trafficking division and i am join today with heather from the texas advocacy project, and Heidi Alvarez with the university of Maryland Safe Center and actually happens to be one of my grantees, so we have worked closely together for four or five years it has been now. So with that, i think, we actually have a bit of the different presentation. We love powerpoint. We are going to use powerpoint. We actually have a few videos that we will include to set the stage on some
The u. S. Chamber is proud to be sponsoring this publication that will be released later this year. That was a quick preview of what is to come. With that said, lets give a round of applause for our first two panels. [applause] and we will take a quick, i say an eight minute to nine minute break, so we could make this quick. There is still purpose in the back and if you need to use the restrooms but they are on the outside, so thank you. [indiscernible voices] [indiscernible voices] ok. All right. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for coming back from break. We have had some great panels is morning and we are happy to be invited to participate this morning as well. I am a victim just as Program Specialist for the office of victims of crime at the department or justice Human Trafficking division and i am join today with heather from the texas advocacy project, and Heidi Alvarez with the university of Maryland Safe Center and actually happens to be one of my grantees, so we have worked c
Now. We just got here on scene, we are still waiting to hear back there the Phoenix Police about hopple of this started. They expect this area to be closed for hours. So avoid this area at this time. 7th street to the loop 101 will be closed. Guys. And we hope that the pedestrians is okay, kris, thank you. Just into the tuesday room tonight, right now, theinto the news room now the search is on in phoenix after a man was shot. The suspect is a woman. She is on the run how. No word on that mans condition today. Troopers in nevada say that they have identified a suspect. It ended in a car dealership from an elderly couple. And then he was shot and killed. It was scary, because he pulled out in front of me. He could have just hit me. Office shot him ask s is a 17yearoldhim is a 17year old veteran. Accused of causing a deadly crash that killed a woman, 26 yearold Randall Nelson is charged with homicide and assault. Police are still trying out if he was drunk when he hit another car. His ca
Se sending more force to fight isil in syria. Im Barnaby Phillips in vienna at the opec summit. Oil prices are down, oilexporting countries are divided on what to do about it. Our top story this hour, four palestinians have been killed by Israeli Security forces in separate incidents across the occupied west bank. [ gunfire ] in bethlehem palestinians protesters threw stones at the israeli army. Earlier north of Ramallah A Palestinian man was shot dead after ramming his car into Israeli Soldiers. Two were likely injured. Stephanie decker joins us live now from ramallah. This is apparently getting worse by the day, steph. Get us up to date with the death toll so far. Reporter the death toll since the first of october when we really saw this wave of one on one violence start, these are huge numbers, but i think now were two months on. This is becoming a daily occurrence. It does go in waves. In a day like today, three separate incidents in separate parts of the occupied west bank. Last n