10 0services, Alex Michael Azari mr. President. We have 14 days, 14 days by our own established deadline to do something about the dreamers issue about daca. Why do we find ourselves at this place . Since september the fifth of last year president obama, President Trump as well as attorney general sessions announced the end of the daca Reduction Program as of march 5 of this year. 780,000 young people who werent documented in the United States became here as children we given a chance by president obama to stay s here illegally e able to work here and not fear deportation. 780,000. For the most part there are students and workers who are a vital part of the community and things in their lives and promised to do in even more but the decision was made by President Trump put an end to this program. When he made that decision he also challenged congress. He said if we are going to get i this exact date of order do something, pass a law. Well here we are just about in the fifth month out of
We appreciate you coming and taking the time in your thoughtful testimony. Youre looking forward to answers to what should be a number of interesting questions. Members of this committee, it should come as no surprise that the security of our borders been a top priority in this committee. In november 2015 we published a report the state of americas border security. We have copies, so any new members are all members emma i would be happy to give you one. We have learned an awful lot. I would ask that my Opening Statement be entered in the record. I will take silence as a consent, thanks. I would like to read some of the findings out of that Opening Statement as well as other things we have learned very first and foremost, what we have ,earned in this 23rd hearing the first finding is that our borders are not secure. Two, americans demand for drugs is one root cause. In order to secure our borders agents need full situational awareness, including staying on the other side of the border.
We appreciate you coming and taking the time in your thoughtful testimony. Youre looking forward to answers to what should be a number of interesting questions. Members of this committee, it should come as no surprise that the security of our borders been a top priority in this committee. In november 2015 we published a report the state of americas border security. We have copies, so any new members are all members emma i would be happy to give you one. We have learned an awful lot. I would ask that my Opening Statement be entered in the record. I will take silence as a consent, thanks. I would like to read some of the findings out of that Opening Statement as well as other things we have learned very first and foremost, what we have ,earned in this 23rd hearing the first finding is that our borders are not secure. Two, americans demand for drugs is one root cause. In order to secure our borders agents need full situational awareness, including staying on the other side of the border.
Whether they might provide military aid as well. At this point the next steps are , the president certainly has difficult decisions to make about this winning the involvement of the United States or continuing on the course or pulling back. What we have seen is the u. S. Involvement has had only a modest impact and has not changed the trajectory of what is happening. And just an update on that story, the president this and also hadriefed the Prime Minister of turkey. And also, a discussion of a helicopter delivering aid in Northern Iraq that has crashed. The New York Times reports on that crash that one of their journalists, their paris bureau chief, alissa rubin, was injured in that Helicopter Crash in iraq. Here on cspan, we are live at the Cato Institute and they are holding a discussion this afternoon for a couple of cases making their way through the federal Court Challenging the subsidies in the Affordable Care act, in particular, the king cases that came up in the d. C. Circuit
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