him or much more of a liability than he imagined. elliott, do you give him anything on boarder security or to your point, which is, you know, statistically correct about people over staying their visas, again, it s a more howne border security? we ll make the border safer. the means will be detouring people from coming to the country by ripping their toddlers away from them. that s not securing the border. if you wish to have a conversation about border security, it needs to be a whole list tick conversation not just about building barriers and yeah, i m not making a moral point and i ll agree that san diego, california needs to have hard border barrier fencing but i just think this idea that immigration is exclusively a function of boarder security and nothing else and no other parties in government or the ngo
border. what have the last few months been like there? this started as a crisis in earnest in october, when i began getting phone calls from the faith community in my city saying they had been contacted by i.c.e. with this very desperate situation where they were going to be forced to let hundreds of asylum seekers out onto the street unless the faith community, the ngo community stepped up and provided some assistance. so we have been in crisis mode certainly in the border towns but also in cities like mesa for the last six plus months. so we re very relieved to see that hopefully this might be the beginning of the solution to that problem. let s talk about what could change, because the numbers are stark. as you mentioned, it s an ongoing issue with these migrants coming across the border at record numbers. 144,000 that were encountered or arrested at the border just in the month of may. that is a record, at least in the past 13 years. the most they ve seen in a
there s also the amazing nonprofit, the ngo community. how might they coordinate. there are nonprofits ready to help in any way. the white house if they feel like they can t do it on their own need to make a call to businesses, to nonprofits, there are so many people that will help, but no one should go to sleep at night without saying, i need to prioritize these getting these 2 and 3-year-olds back to their parents. at this point the government can t just say it s going to happen or we ll create a task force or this or that. you know, enough of that. it s get them back to their parents. what kind of legal help do they need on the ground? you remember when we were talking about the president s first executive order related to this topic and we were at airports watching airports across the country and the legal community through their community work was out there helping folks. what do you see now? we have a lawsuit going in san diego, a national class action and had a hearing
i asked president clinton about them. so you marking your tenth anniversary for cgi, the u.n. 15 years ago set out very ambitious development goals which you mock other mountafoundations have tr help along. what are the best ways to try to alleviate poverty? have you come up with some kind of a set of, you know, best practices? i ve learned what works best, which is why we re doing this one on what we call the future of impact. we spent ten years trying to get everybody to make commitments, report on their progress, and measure their impact. now we want to talk about what works best. what works best basically are networks of people that work together across their lines of contacts and knowledge in the ngo community and also when
so it s no surprise that 74% of voters here cast a ballot in 2008, that, by the way, the highest ternout of any state in our changes. 96% can read, that also the highest in the country. with us sharon sales belton, mayor of minneapolis from 94 to 2001. quite simply, what s the secret? the secret is thatsh to preserves a high quality of life. the private sector, the ngo community, the citizens are all committed to ensuring that people are engaged in the civic life and community life, and it works. does that start in the school system? does that start when people are