Trust is everything to me. Thats why for all we have accomplished in state gos government, our job is not done until we clean up the corruption. So im appointing a new independent commissioner led by top officials from all across the great state to investigate and prosecute wrong doing. Politicians in albany wont like it, but i work with the people and i wont stop fighting until we all have a government we can trust. Andrew cuomo is spending millions of our tax on ads that are not true. Guess what state ranks dead last in Economic Outlook . Cuomos new york. Has the highest property taxes in the nation, cuomos new york. Andrew cuomos policies have new york last in too many categories, and no amount of taxpayer ads could change that. New york has a proud history of fighting for the nation. Its shocking rob astorino has violated Discrimination Laws for years. Hes the only county executive who refuses to comply. 10 million in penalties for civil rights violations. The New York Times on ast
Thanks. Hi. Im diane eikenberry. Im a senior attorney, and i work with detained children in o. R. Custody in virginia and maryland. I sort of have two questions but theyre related to training and stakeholder relations and sort of two parts for barbara and maria. First maria, i want to thank you so much for the wonderful work that the young center does. Thanks. Ive had the pleasure of working with one of your child advocates out of the office in harlingen. You make a great difference. Im so excited youre opening new offices because we need more of your work. Thanks. But barbara, you mentioned theres expanded training for the Immigration Judges. Can you speak a little bit about that . And also maybe generally about what kind of training, if any, is required for Immigration Judges around issues relating to these unaccompanied minors. So we have done some training with the Immigration Judges, you know. Some of you know because of budgetary issues, weve had to have our conferences on dvd fo
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
And ill ask that you identify yourself. And if youre directing your attention to any particular panelist, to let that panelist know who youre directing your questions to. Thanks. Hi. Im diane eikenberry. Im a senior attorney, and i work with detained children in o. R. Custody in virginia and maryland. I sort of have two questions but theyre related to training and stakeholder relations and sort of two parts for barbara and maria. First maria, i want to thank you so much for the wonderful work that the young center does. Thanks. Ive had the pleasure of working with one of your child advocates out of the office in harlingen. You make a great difference. Im so excited youre opening new offices because we need more of your work. Thanks. But barbara, you mentioned theres expanded training for the Immigration Judges. Can you speak a little bit about that . And also maybe generally about what kind of training, if any, is required for Immigration Judges around issues relating to these unaccomp
So the government has asked us to open offices in three locations, houston, new york and washington, d. C. So thats just one of the side things that have happened as a result of the influx. So our philosophy, though, is that best interests should be driven by childrens rights. And so what this means is that what the child wants is very, very important. And in most cases, we will not go against that unless the childs safety is at issue. We cant just say that honduras is dangerous and he shouldnt go back. We have to have very factspecific information about that child. We have to be subject to crossexamination, by the childs attorney, by the judge, by the Trial Attorney. We have to prove what were saying. Okay. Best interests, i just want to talk a little bit about that. First of all, its the law of all 50 states. Its also the law, obviously, of the convention on the rights of the child and the crc, that language in the crc came from our laws. And yet when it comes to immigrant children,