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Texas officials discuss Border Security and unaccompanied immigrant children. On newsmakers, rajiv shah discusses ebola, and u. S. Foreign aid. Newsmakers on cspan. Next, a debate on what to do with undocumented immigrant children known as dreamers. It is the Texas Tribune festival in austin. This is an hour and 10 minutes. Good afternoon. Thank you for being here today. Im manny fernandez. Im the Houston Bureau chief for the new york times. And on behalf of the Texas Tribune, im very happy to welcome everyone to the Fourth AnnualTexas Tribune festival and to our panel today, entitled what to do with the dreamers. Our panelists are george baldor, a dallas bu ....
Conservative activists and lawmakers will try once more this coming legislative session to stop what has become known as the texas dream act. The texas Republican Partys official 2014 platform calls for repealing the law. Nationally, meanwhile, comprehensive Immigration Reform has stalled in washington, as dreamers and other advocates are pressing congress for an overhaul that would create a formal path to citizenship for young people who came here as children. Dreamers have become an influential political voice, appearing on the cover of Time Magazine and playing a key role in shaping immigration policy. Gabby, id like to start with you, if i could. Sure. Who are the dreamers, and how many are there in the United States . So there are about 2. 1 million dreamer ....
Needs. Now it is my pleasure to introduce ronald l. Hurst the Vice President of conservation of museums and the chief cura curator. It goes without saying that ron plays a significant leadership role at williamsburg directing initiatives across the foundation and importantly expanding Decorative Arts research. Drayton halls staff is particularly happy to have him here this evening. What began as a series of correspondence grew to Collaborative Research and then finally the 27 objects from drayton hall. Ron has helped contexturalize the architecture of the hall. Ladies and gentlemen, lets give a warm welcome to ron hurst. Thank you, and everyone, im so pleased to be in charleston. I never miss an opportunity to come to the holy city, it is one of those very special places, whether youre interested in histor histo ....
Native american history, and she has special interest in the interactions between indigenous people, and people of african descent during the 19th century. So her first book was race in the Cherokee Nation, 17 in the 19th century. Her most recent book is called choctaw confederates, the American Civil War and indian country. If you recognize the title, that book is the subject of tonights talk. Its also basically brandnew. I noticed its official publication date was two years ago. Its a twoweek birthday for your book this evening. Were excited to share it with you. You can find it in all the usual bookstore places, as well as directly from the university of North Carolina press publishers. The top will be around 30 to 35 minutes, also. Well have plenty of time for a discussion at the end. The way we do discussion, i ....