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
Will be coming to our courts. It will be substantial. I want to help you with this, but how can you come to us with a budget request if you dont know how many courts or how its going to speed this process . I think every one of you talked about speeding up the process to making sure the kids get back to the appropriate that need to go back to the country. I want to be helpful. I want to vote for this. Senator, may i . Sure. The assumption underlying the request from doj is that well be able to add an additional case load of 55,000 to 75,000 cases a year. Overall. And right now they are handling how many a year . Right now the pending case load is 275,000. 275,000. Okay. Okay. Significant. How many kids are going to come into the border every day . These days, its up the total apprehensions of the kids unaccompanied is about 250. It was higher. Its down to somewhere between 200 and 250 a day. So we will be able to make significant inroads into these kids as far as moving them through th
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Most important trends for women, which was that american womens Labor Force Participation increased. Not only do they not go home after world war ii, they increasingly enter the labor market across the 19th the 1950s. A history of women in the workplace sunday at 1 p. M. Eastern. Next, highlights from season one of first ladies, influence and image. The 50thdiscussion on anniversary of the march on washington, and the legacy of Martin Luther king jr. Series, first ladies, influence and image. Over the next couple of hours, we will visit places with history curators. Away fighting the revolutionary war, Martha Washington ran their plantation. It is clear that martha arrived at mount vernon in 1859 and there was a lot of management that she had to do. When she married George Washington, she brings with her to mount vernon 12 housemates. That is really almost unimaginable luxury. These are slaves that are for the most part, not field labor, not producing crops, which is where your income
Mohammed ali to the cemetery, where he will be laid to rest later this morning. Taking a route through the city where he was born and raised and learned how to box. A very public memorial will begin roughly four hours from now, alib, died a week ago, ali a threetime heavyweight champ who defended his title 21 times in his career, arguably the best fighter of his generation, but he was more than just a boxer. A decision also cost him three years of his prime as well. It helped to fuel the opposition to the war. It helped cement his status as one of the most consequential figures in human history. After his diagnosis with parkinsons as well. He was building his legacy as a philanthropist, a global ambassador, a symbol of kirj. Also some breaking political news this morning. We are watching live pictures here, this is outside Hillary Clintons home in washington, d. C. Momentariab momentarily with more on that meeting, lets get to a park, right next to the ali center. 6 theres that big scr