return with a response. our security correspondent frank gardner has more, from jerusalem. what s being debated is the permission by the israeli military for large numbers of palestinian displaced people, currently who are sheltering in the south of the gaza strip, in the city of rafah, to move back to their homes in the north. that s something that israel has resisted in the past. israel, reportedly, would also remove some of its forces from gaza. this would be during a a0 day truce. and there would of course be the exchange of hostages and prisoners. probably hundreds, if not thousands, of palestinian prisoners coming out of israeli jails in return for a rather lowerfigure than was originally demanded by israel an initialfigure of around 33 israeli hostages. now, from the israeli side, there is dual pressure going on here. pressure from the united states to do this deal, and pressure domestically from all the families and friends of the hostages who ve been demonstrating
this monday, on c-span s new series, landmark cases in 1830, dred scott was enalive ode u.s. army surgeon dr. john emerson. emerson was assigned to duties in several free states, during which dred scott married harriet robinson. when the doctor died mr. scott tried to buy his family s freedom from his widow but she refuels expelled he sued. follow the case of scott versus sanford in the series, landmark cases, historic supreme court decisions, with our special guests, george washington university law professor, christopher bracey, and mar a martha jones, history professor at the university of michigan law school who will reveal the life and times of the people who were the plaintiffs, mother and justices in these cases. landmark cases, live monday at 9:00 p.m. eastern. and be sure to join the conversation as we ll be taking your calls, e-mails, tweets and facebook comments during the program using the hash tag lan mark cases on c-span, c-span3, and c-span radio, and for backg
then it said it planned to accept a floor of 85,000 refugees and at least 100,000 next year. once here with refugee status those individuals can claim any job and collect any federal welfare benefit. recent statistics from the department of health and human services office of refugee resettlement indicate that 75% of refugees receive food stamps and more than half receive free health care and cash benefits. for refugees from the middle east the numbers are even higher. more than 90% of recent middle eastern refugees draw food stamps and about 70% receive free health care and cash welfare. refugee settlement also comes with security risks as we have witnessed with the surge of isis recruitment among, for example, somali refugee communities in minnesota. anyone claiming to have a serious and honest discussion of refugee resettlement must ask the difficult questions about integration, how can we accomplish that. assimilation, and community safety. this is certainly true with r
terrorist attack, the groups i meet with hate isil. in their view isil has hijacked their religion. it occupies no part of the islamic faith. and they do suffer discrimination. so when i meet with muslim communities about helping us in our homeland security efforts i m also very much in listening mode when it comes to their issues with profiling at airports, our immigration laws, with building bridges, i think we need to go to the next level in helping them develop the counter message to isil. but what are they telling you when you listen? what they tell me is that our government should not be at war with islam. and that isil that the islamic state is not islam and it s not a state. it s a terrorist organization. that is claiming the banner of a religion that occupies something like one quarter of the world s population. and that it is a religion of peace and brotherhood and they want people to understand that. i ve gone to meetings of muslim community leaders, for ex
historians in arlington, virginia. professors, authors, and graduate students about the research. this interview is about 20 minutes. steve: as it history professor, you focus on chinese american before and after world war ii. take us back to this. brooks: you lived under the shadow of the chinese exclusion act, which is a law passed in 1882 that actually surveyed all chinese immigration to the united states. people forget that today the chinese were once looked upon as undesirable, just because of their race. chinese-americans growing up at were born in they the united states, they could be amounts, and the tiny allowed in could not naturalize, they could not become citizens. in many ways, you are marginal, you are not a real citizen. when they went out into the world, they could not get a job. they were treated as third class citizens, if their citizenship was actually taken seriously at all. it was a really difficult time. course, it was made worse. about,ple i m writing t