Subcommittee on Border Security will come to order. Subcommittee is meeting to receive testimony in examining the human rights and legal implications of dhss remain in mexico policy. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare the subcommittee in recess at any point. Good morning. Today we will examine implications of a migrant protection protocol more commonly known as the remain in Mexico Program. We will hear the perspective of practitioners who witnessed the program on the ground. Since the program went into effect on january 18, 2019, the remain in mexico policy has forced 10,000 asylumseekers to wait in mexico while their claims are processed. This summary does not begin to touch on the devastating and deceptive impact on countless lives. Prior to this programs implication, asylumseekers will stay in the United States as it moves through the court. Policy based on the humane and common sense premise that should be given temporary safe havens, deciding whether or not they
Subcommittee on Border Security will come to order. Subcommittee is meeting to receive testimony in examining the human rights and legal implications of dhss remain in mexico policy. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare the subcommittee in recess at any point. Good morning. Today we will examine implications of a migrant protection protocol more commonly known as the remain in Mexico Program. We will hear the perspective of practitioners who witnessed the program on the ground. Since the program went into effect on january 18, 2019, the remain in mexico policy has forced 10,000 asylumseekers to wait in mexico while their claims are processed. This summary does not begin to touch on the devastating and deceptive impact on countless lives. Prior to this programs implication, asylumseekers will stay in the United States as it moves through the court. Policy based on the humane and common sense premise that should be given temporary safe havens, deciding whether or not they
To help these communities. This is an hour 20 minutes. Is this on . Can you hear me . Excellent. Welcome back. While youre all walking in and settling down thank you. I just wanted to say a couple words about what we do here at georgetown in this field before i welcome my panel and introduce everybody. Im andy. I direct the asylum films here. We represent Asylum Seekers in deportation hearings. Actually handle a case from beginning to end for Asylum Seekers all over the world. My colleague is here, as well, who i work with. Dina, is dina here . May be at some point. We have three lauries each semester and 12 students. The clinic has been doing this for, i guess, 24 years. I think phil started the asylum part of this in 1995. We also have courses on immigration and refugee law as well as we started last year to send volunteers to texas, to the two major detention facilities that are housing women with children, detaining women and children, to help prepare the women for credible fear in
And the message exist but the first question is how do we get access . Thats a very important question. Right now we have no access to this data however there are initiatives of an industry Academic Consortium with this communication data and having trouble getting access. So in the past two weeks that not only does facebook read delay releasing the data that the projects approved they are planning to pull out by the end of september if facebook doesnt release the data they promised to release. So facebook has responded they are having difficulty releasing in a timely manner because of concerns of individual Data Security and privacy. This essentially brings up the transparency paradox. That these platforms are producing tremendous pressure to be more open and transparent how they are affecting our democracy. We do speak to the only way. The only way is to thread the needle of the cross paradox and become more secure engines apparent at the same time. What does that mean technically .
To examine the human rights and legal implications without objection we will recess at any point. Looking at the migrant protection protocol known as the marine and Mexico Program with our prospective practitioners on the ground going to affect 2019 the remain in mexico policy has forced asylumseekers to wait while their claims are processed this does not even begin to touch on the devastating and destructive impact this is had on countless lives go prior to the implementation asylumseekers stay while they are moved through the court and the common sense premise with a temporary safe haven while it is decided whether or not they remain in our country. And while they arrive at the border to seek asylum there provided a court date in and sent back to mexico they are mostly from central and south america almost only strangers to mexico as they weigh on a decision from the United States. Some of the most dangerous and mexico jobs are hard to come by even local government officials have bee