[ applause ] thanks very much. i m delighted to see so many of you here. i have some remarks which i think i will not use if you ll forgive me and if the author of these remarks will forgive me. i just want to say how pleased i am to see so many of you here. i look out and see a lot of friends, and i m so happy that you re here. as you know, we ve been doing this for a few years now. it s an awful lot of fun for me. i get the credit, somebody else does the work. i hope that you enjoy this as much as i do. i can tell you that were you to stand here and look out and see yourselves, you d be very pleased. what a group. and to resist calling you by name one by one, which has been my want over the years and staff gives me hell for doing it. one, you re going to leave out somebody and two, they really don t want to hear that. but i m so pleased to see so many friends here. this is a special night for me. as i say, somebody else does the work and i get the credit. so who follows m
ucla released a report earlier this year about challenges facing undocumented undergraduates get into the u.s. it is a survey of 900 undocumented undergraduates in 32 states who migrated from 55 countries. the co-authors joined a panel for a discussion about undocumented college students in the u.s. this is an hour and 45 minutes. good morning. it is a pleasure to welcome you and for those of you who live in new york, you know this is a rare example of sunshine in the morning. and it s not even freezing. it s a great pleasure to welcome you to the steinhardt institute for higher education policy. i was thinking about our session this morning and how when i started the institute about 12 years ago. i kept looking up a word policy in the dictionary and if you ever do that, you discover it is a difficult word. it s hard to get a good definition. that is appropriate because when we think of policy we have an image in our mind with the definition is in the dictionary. in fact
power to make the laws and a provision that is at issue. i think it s important to come want to get to the language of the smiley which my friend embraces i would like it to because as i read those two cases that don t help you very much. i mean hildebrant stock about a particular statute was passed in 1911. it helps the government with its statutory argument because at different statute isn t similar words but we don t know if it was with the same intent. smiley talks about a sitting legislature and asks whether its exercise of the map drawing power as a legislative exercise or say, more like an impeachment exercise. it doesn t talk about what is at issue here where you people outside that building making a legislative decision. so i didn t see those two cases as helping you that much though please argue to the contrary. but i think the great open question here is what happens when legislative power, over time, expands from a group of people s
what goes on the brain activity is just many fold in terms of the connections that are being made, the synopsis being connected, so we are using that brain research to demonstrate that if we can get or not to demonstrate, but to convey to parents that are too busy to have this information that they are brain builders from the minute that that baby s born. a lot of things we as parents have taken for granted, the way we raise our kids, there are a lot of parents, the parents that we are trying to reach, that don t have that information. they haven t they themselves have not been brought up that way. so they feel like there s nothing i can do. the babies will learn when they go to school at 5 years old. by then it s way too late. that s where the gap, the huge gaps we have, actually they re finding out that the gaps begin when they are 18 months old. in terms of the number of words. but it s not the number of words. it s the quality of the words that are spoken. and the inter
would be eligible for deportation under the executive order. amy: and we will speak to the head of the new york immigration coalition. first, hundreds of fast food workers plan to converge today on the corporate offices of labor secretary nominee, fast food ceo andrew puzder. we will speak to a guest from the restaurant opportunity united group, a former employee at one of puzder s restaurants, carl s jr. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. immigration officials have arrested more than 600 people across the u.s. in the last week. the arrests in at least 11 states including california, new , york, georgia, north carolina, south carolina, illinois, indiana, kansas, kentucky, missouri, and wisconsin have spread fear amonimmigrants and their advocates. it is not clear if ice, or immigration and customs enforcement, is continuing routine operations or stepping up its deportations in line with preside