One purpose. Im a practicing buddhist i follow the teachings of the dally lo dalai lama. We wanted to show our support for our jewish brothers and sisters. Reporter while students from a local Hebrew Academy sang songs, politics was the motivation for many to demonstrate. Were here to say to the world and our elected officials who arent reflecting our values this is what we stand for. Reporter what do you think is driving this hate . Fear. Misinformation, what happens is when you get this kind of establishment in washington, it gives permission to the crazy people who think they have a right to go out and do this. I think the responsibility lays with the white house in planting the seeds for this kind of hate. Reporter does this hatred stem from the Trump Administration . I dont believe so. Unfortunately, human kind sometimes has a very dark side to it. I dont know where it comes from, its wrong. Reporter demonstrators insist speaking out is the best weapon. What moves us forward is ma
And it demonstrates what happens when the president unilaterally decides to issue an executive order affecting immigration without securing the border. The number of children more than doubled between fiscal year 2011 and fiscal year 2013. Yet until just recently, the president did not even speak out to warn their parents and to tell them that the bjojourney wd be horrendous for their children and they would be sent home. We know many of these children have been abused or harmed on their way here. And when the wave became evident two years ago, the president took no action at that time to try to stem the tide. We know that it will take a long time before all of these children have hearings that could lead to their being support home, if they show up at all for the adjudications. So my question is what specifically is the administration doing to propose changes in the laws or regulations right now so that these children can be safely and immediately put on planes and returned to their p
Identify them as victims of violence, or persecution. Im willing to help. I know, two or three hours before the Vice President arrived to guatemala, you were planning to announce money we may want to look a little bit further than that. But i can assure you that i will fight tooth and nail, changes in the trafficking victims protection act. We have to do the right thing. We can and should work with you. We will help you. But, when you have an 8 or 9yearold girl being raped by gangs sending her up here. Or being sent by her parents to escape that kind of violence, im not sure americans all really feel that we should immediately send them back. We routinely ask these other countries to support refugees fleeing violence, lets do it ourselves. And look for the funding in a longrange plan. In the meantime, i hope the body will pass an immigration law. Anybody want to respond . I do. I have a letter written by a number of senators, including senators on this committee. And theres a sentence
Coming back, the children, the children accompanied by their parents and the unaccompanied adults. Were doing that. Were dramatically reducing the time it takes for that to happen and were asking for the Additional Resources to my department and to the department of justice to turn these people around quicker including the children. So were asking for that and in terms of the change in law as i said a moment ago, were asking and this will be in a separate submission for the ability to treat unaccompanied kids from the Central American countries in the same way we would someone from a contiguous country so that we have the ability to offer them voluntary return which the kids from mexico do accept. Senator murray. Thank you for holding this hearing today. I think everybody this this room, republicans, democrats are at least in agreement that what were seeing along the nations southwest border is simply unacceptable. As some have mentioned, the numbers of young people and children crossi
They dont have the money to do it. They cant transfer them in 72 hours, my fellow senators, because they dont have the money to do it. So thats why this supplemental, madam chair, as you said, is so critical. We cant hold ourselves up as a paradigm of human rights and then say round them up and shakeup the and ship them ba. Should they say that to the syrians that are escape something round them up and ship them back . Were better than that. I have to disbrae with my friend from south carolina. Were not being overrun by these kids. Were a country of 300 million people. Were talking about, what, 50,000, 90,000 at the most . Thats overrunning america . Nonsense. We can deal with this. Now, let anyone think, we got to work with those other countries. We have to do things in those other countries. Its a complex issue. As some of you have state. Not going to be solved overnight. Its not going to be sofld with a few military people. But in the meantime, the single, most important thing is to