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Many of us can ever remember. We know how big the stakes are. I, personally, have been through this myself when my husband got really sick and was in the hospital and was able to see firsthand how horrific this is where you cant stand by your loved ones side and hold her hand and you cant give hogs to the Health Care Workers and they are the ones holding up the phone to their ears. I know we are going to find a way out of this, but to me, the only way we find a way out of this is to make sure we have a functioning democracy. That is why i am so devoted to this issue and all of the things we were talking about before the pandemic from making progress in a big way on climate change. We cannot wait. Doing something about gun safety, racial disparity, economic inequality. We have to move now and the way we do it is with our democracy. That is why we are working so hard to pass our bill that ron and i have been leading, each of us in different ways, for years. That is to make it easier for
That is true for the speakers as well and the audience. So i will not use any time to repeat what the speakers would need for introduction, but they come from three important perspectives on the debate. This is obviously a law and policy conference. I think that we will discuss a little bit more law than we have discussed in other panels, and hopefully a little policy as well. So the broad theme for the panel which is true for a lot of the immigration stuff since trump took over is some important issues having been sort of shuttled between and among three branchs of the government. In one way of the wall leaning from one branch of the government, and each branch of the government is putting the can in the other persons lap, and hoping that the can will stop there somewhere. Many of the cans have not stopped. So this is the chance to see where the cans are and where they will finally land. So i will begin talking to the panelists in more of a conversation topic, and so we can get into t
Debate. And this is obviously a law and policy conference. I think well discuss a little more law than we have discussed in other panels and hopefully a little policy as well. So the broad team we picked for this panel, which i think we have detected has been true tore a lot of immigration stuff, since at least this president took over, is that some very important issues have been sort of getting shuttled among three branches of the government. These are you could say these are every each branch of the government is sort of hitting, putting the can in the other persons lap and hoping the can will stop there somewhere. Many of these cans havent stopped. This is our chance to see where the cans are and where they will finally land. So ill begin this by asking questions of our panelists more in a conversational style so we could get to many topics, than sort of one issue only for a long time. So let me start with cecil lia because she represents the aclu which many people regard has been