In a pair of memos, more details will offered on plans of the agency to hire enforcement expand the pool of immigrants who are prioritized for removal, speedup deportation hearings. The new directors will supersede under all of those issued previous administrations, including measures from obama aimed at focusing deportations exclusively on hardened criminals and those with terrorist ties. Your call next. Deborah in houston. Welcome. Caller i disagree with all of the immigration stuff. I didnt vote for trump. Sam houston was the president of he turned them loose or paid them to stay. He has been my personal president favorite my whole life. Thank you, and please, everybody, Pay Attention to the immigrants. Ars. Host here is a piece trump could be reading this morning in the Palm Beach Post on the front page. An issue he has touched on nafta. Theida voters are cheering attack on nafta. Florida growers of tomatoes, bell peppers, strawberries and specialty crops have been hammered by chie
Thats a valid interest, correct . Correct. Well, if in a case like this where theres a 45 deviation, something of that order, then why isnt texas required at that point to to recognize that these interests that are legitimate under the constitution which are voterbased should not be accommodated and so that you should at least give some consideration to this disparity that you have among voters . Well, first off, the court in gaffney upheld the use of population while recognizing that there could, there was in new york at least, a different state a 29 voter definition. Yet the court said it was quite sure that a prime prima facie cd not been made out. To while a state does consider representational quality and electoral quality, the equal protection clause as general language doesnt mandate that either must take precedence over the other. So, of course, it would be legitimate for the state to look at that data. At the same time, and we have federal census data which is the most row bes
Representatives made because i do think we have got to reform immigration. I believe we need to reform it on a stepbystep bases. I know that we have disagreements about how we do that but i think you will see that things will start to happen on that with regard to Border Security and we passed a bill in this house last year with i think, 350 votes, that dealt with legal immigration. And we have got we didnt do everything but it did a bunch of things to get it started. And i know the member from utah is going to reintroduce that and expand and do things on that. I appreciate all of the witnesses being here and your points of view. We clearly are a diverse country with diverse views on many things including this issue but i think the bottom line is this is a fight about how we will get to a solution not necessarily rather the people want to get a to longterm solution on these issues. The gentlemen from colorado. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I do have an amendment and would like to be able to
Robert caro has appeared on q a and is also appeared through the National Book festival in september. House of stone, you remembered that Anthony Shadid died in syria while covering syria for the Washington Post. His wife will be here representing him and that is not a lottery. Katherine boo has been nominated in the nonfiction category, behind a beautiful forevers about a slum in mumbai india and finally Anne Applebaum has been nominated for iron curtain. That book is just out and she is scheduled to appear under q a and show in december, so you will be able to see her as well and robert caro will be interviewing those others as we go and we will be watching the red carpet here as some of the authors have their pictures taken that right now we want to talk to the chairman of the National Book foundation and this is david steinberger. David steinberger is the head of the Perseus Book Group. If you would, tell us for those who dont know what is the National Book award . The National Boo
Today. I am sorry, session highs for the s p 500. I got excited. With that being said, you have the up arrows. The s p 500 up one third of 1 at the moment. Lets talk about why we are seeing some of this optimism. Lets take a look at ford. A new 52 week high. They came out with some good numbers. Raising guidance Going Forward. That is good news. Back to you. Adam thank you. Lori one of the contractors behind the obamacare website says the website is being fixed and will be ready in time for january 1. Richardson joins us with the very latest. They will not say exactly when this will be fixed. They did not have enough time to test it. There is just too many people logging on to the exchange and that is the root of the problem. There are thousands of website that handle volume far larger than what healthcare. Gov was faced with. Surely the website was designed to handle more than 2000 users. They are not responsible for what i call the front door. Rich this hearing is about four hours ol