Cincinnati, toledo, buffalo, and all across the midwest. There are literally almost a dozen. Its exciting work and its important work and its really focussed on kind of national and regional and local economic policy. Great. Im going to follow up with you again, steve, for a minute. Director rodriguez said that absent federal action, congressional action, we cannot do it all. So, with employmentbased visas, you cant create them or other types of visas. What strategies do you use to overcome those types of challenges . Sure. Make no mistake that the biggest economic boost would be a more sense kal and higher performing federal immigration policy that works for local economies. And maybe even as localized, clearly the challenges that we face in detroit are very different than long beach or new york city. And our skill sets and needs are very different. And probably one size fit all policy might not work as well, but absent that, were trying to do everything we can to take advantage of th
Conversation. I think that in addition to the reports that my organization has done, several reports that npi has produced, reports that the Bipartisan Policy Center put out, here is what is true and undeniably true, that last year there were only 10,000 nonborder recent border crosser ee crossers, noncriminals deported. You can level 3 and a single misdemeanor is an illegitimate criteria for deportation. I agree. We should eliminate the lower end. To deny as i would argue that many members in the media and many of the immigration groups have done of the substantial and significant and undeniable changes that have gone on i am not telling you that 10,000 is an acceptable number. Its too many. Still too many. We got to do better than this. But what is clear its on my website. Its on their website. Its on five other organizations websites, is that the its the policy of the United States government today to not deport people from the interior of the country who do not have criminal record
Regional and local economic policy. Great. Im going to follow up with you again, steve, for a minute. Director rodriguez said that absent federal action, congressional action, we cannot do it all. So, with employmentbased visas, you cant create them or other types of visas. What strategies do you use to overcome those types of challenges . Sure. Make no mistake that the biggest economic boost would be a more sense kal and higher performing federal immigration policy that works for local economies. And maybe even as localized, clearly the challenges that we face in detroit are very different than long beach or new york city. And our skill sets and needs are very different. And probably one size fit all policy might not work as well, but absent that, were trying to do everything we can to take advantage of the opportunities that we have. And frankly, a lot of that work would repair us well if some kind of Immigration Reform policy was passed. So what do we do . One is i mentioned Interna
Reverend dean curie Life Center Church, at that comba, washington. The chaplain let us pray. Father, what an honor it is to be in your presence here today. We celebrate this morning what you have done to the United States of america. We acknowledge the hand of providence in our history and the force of inspiration in our future. Be with us here now most significantly in our present, that we can see what others do not see, that we can do what others fear to do, so that we can change what others are afraid to change. We are reminded that we are so small and urso big. Our problems are you are so big. Our problems are daunlting and our responsibilities are many. But we look to you today, to your principles and to your goodness, that we could be everything you designed for us to be. That we could do everything you planned for us to do. That others may be free. Today may every decision made, every plan contemplated be sprinkled with your grace and inspired from heaven. Change us change our m
The took could group we urge you to support and exhaustive that moratorium that supervisor kim has extraordinary its crucially important to protect what we have today in the businesses today to be evaluated and drafted and hopefully approved by the Planning Department and the board in the future we want to present our draft from our Community Plan weve been preparing this from well over a year and talking to many of the businesses and the local Community Stakeholders its a starting point we hope for discussion its a tiered system the flower mart for example, will have to be flu replayed where the zoning is less restrictive and for a are replacement of the pdrs new developments or conversion our goal is yes south of market will see substantial growth we want to see in addition to the flower mart la jolla at least one million square feet of floor space continue and we need to assist businesses hopefully to buy their property for a business to be stabilized we want to forward this to you