Of naval operations. It is followed by another hearing on train safety with the head of the federal railroad administration. At a Senate Homeland security, u. S. Customs and Border Protection acting at a Senate Homeland security hearing, u. S. Customs and Border Protection acting commissioner mark morgan was asked about conditions at migrant detention facilities, and allegations of misconduct by Border Patrol officials. There was also testimony from the Homeland Security departments acting inspector general. This is just under two hours. This hearing will come to order. I would like to welcome our witnesses. The title of this hearing, the unprecedented migration at the u. S. Southern border, subtitle, what is required to improve conditions . This hearing will com i think that is incredibly important that we concentrate on what can we do to improve conditions, Continuous Improvement . I have a manufacturing background. That is what we seek to do. I will say at the onset that nobody, nob
I recognize myself for opening statement. In five weeks time, the Inspector General released two alerts detailing dangerous conditions at u. S. Customs and Border Protection facilities in texas. According to the ig, at some of the facilities conditions are so bad that they require immediate attention and action. The first alert focused on the detention of single adults and detailed, quote, dangerous holding conditions at the el paso processing center. Unfortunately this report was not a surprise to me and my colleagues, along with vice chair, i visited the same facility a few months ago. Even then, conditions we observed were unacceptable. Women, children, families were either outside waiting to enter the facility, shoved into overcrowded cells, or sitting in hallways. Prior to the visit, we understood hundreds of families were housed outside for days in a tent behind the Border Patrol facility. We expected to meet with them, but to our surprise, the tent was empty. It was not until af
In terms of gains. Can tech keep up its recent hot streak joining us now to discuss is jeffries Senior Analyst brent thil and tom forte gentlemen, good morning to you both tom, ill start with you the fact that were seeing names like apple, the semis rally on this u. S. china trade truce over the weekend and what it means for some of these companies to be selling into china, how should investors be thinking about that sure, i would say the truce is nice, but we would like to see is an actual resolution. So one point in time, resolution looked like china agreeing to buy billions of dollars of Agricultural Products from the u. S. So, again, the truce is nice, but we would like to see an actual outcome, and something were monitoring closely, because we would argue it had the biggest impact on tech stocks in the first half of this year brent, what it means for alphabet, as well. I mean, i know they had put a hold earlier when huawei got added to the intent tis list here in the u. S. Is ther
But its also because, like Robert Kennedy, beto orourke is tough, hard working, and courageous. As attorney general, Robert Kennedy took on the mob. I remember. I was a kid. It was pretty scary stuff. As a third term congressman from texas, Robert Francis beto orourke took on the most disliked and i might add the meanest longterm senator from texas, ted cruz. [applause] who . But also, as third term congressman for texas, Robert Francis beto orourke has taken on the most dishonest, immoral trading out. Start over. Immoral i want to back up in that sentence. [laughter] it turns out that it was just a trial run when he went after ted cruz. Beto orourke decided to take on the most dishonest, immoral, and incompetent president in the history of america, donald trump. Beto is like another strong bipartisan leader. And, another robert. There are a lot of people here that may remember bob ray. I worked with him on a diversity day at my daughters middle school, and we worked pretty hard and ch
Killed and their homes burned down. And leaving violence behind as mexicos military prepares to move on migrants we hear why many are making the long journey to the u. S. Well its now 2 g. M. T. And 10 am in hong kong where thousands of protesters have seized highways and surrounded the government headquarters. Theyre angry about a proposed extradition bill that could allow suspects to be sent to Mainland China for a trial in the coming hour politicians will be debasing that proposed law in the citys Legislative Council protests have been ongoing since sunday when a 1000000 people took to the streets to express their anger but well find out how beijing is looking at those developments with adrian brown in a bit but 1st lets talk to scott hide and hong kong. Scott you outside the Legislative Council weve already seen riot Police Deployed that this morning is there a concern about further violence especially given those numbers. Council building known as lets go is that block building be