Also, the differing approaches to the immigration debate and how the approaches have shifted since the 2016 election. We ask that you wait for the q a so people can understand the questions. We invite you the street invite you to tweet along with us. We will have some staff tweeting the event as well. To do a little bit of a scene setter, i am Teresa Cardinal brown. I am the director of immigration and crossborder policy. We have been working on immigration issues since 2013 when our Immigration Task force was formed. Immigration has become a highprofile national issue. Increasingly important to our elections. It is also becoming more partisan as if we had not noticed that. Partisanship is not good for actually solving problems. Pcs job the to find solutions to the biggest problems. None of these issues is more in need of this than immigration. Last year, we conducted a nationwide poll to find out what types of Immigration Reform americans wanted to see. We found there was more Common
They are just adding names to this. If there was a way for you or other community leaders, to add to this growing item, because of you know the people, they want to know them also, and nine times out of 10, there is not a there and maybe youppening would be able to influence it by bringing together a group. Getting activeat power often means getting types of power oftentimes mean is that there are a lot of people who have power. In order for new people to have it, other people have to relinquish them and that will take all of us to really come to terms with what that means and i hope that we are all of to the challenge. Just to the comment on the erosion of democracy, i wanted to share that. The elections we see Strong Political participation. President ial elections it is somewhere in the mid 40s. To me that says when we see that we have people who represent us and take on issues relevant to our daily lives than we come out. I think there is a lot that we can do and i think this is a
Or rural, you want to live a make sure your children have a great future. Decentdont get up for they get up for good and for great. Thats really what it is. The Democratic Party is recognizing that. Ohio has 88 counties. In speaking that, starting with the issues we have in common four guns in urban areas it is a whole different discussion. Rural brothers and sisters. It is starting at those places where behalf that commonality about economic fairness, Economic Justice, where your children have a future. Because of the makeup of ohio, that forces us to do that. We cant really separate the two. We are trying very hard to bring that together a little more into leaf that into the narrative and weave that into the narrative. Wen with our party chairs, have found world leadership who will take that message back. We have the urban leadership and bringing those forces together, because we are the same in the struggle for good and for great. Say,erez i just wanted to as someone who is from rur
We are going to be talking about Media Coverage of the evil outbreak. Ebola outbreak. [video clip] unless a medical professional has contacted you personally, fear not. Do not listen to the hysterical voices on the radio and television. The people who say and write these things are being very irresponsible. Can see on our facebook page, a lot of comments. The media has been hysterical. Usual. Yed, like some of the comments coming in on facebook. Is some recent figures. 4493 deaths so far in west africa. One in the u. S. 2458 in liberia. Article, bbcnying reports how many people have died from ebola in west africa. It sounds like an easy question, but the answer is certainly not. The most recent official figure from the World Health Organization posts 4493. 12,000 could be a better estimate. Theres a bit of uncertainty about how new people have it. Thats how many people have it. Confirmed,e up of suspected and probable cases. Liberia, sierra leone have some of the worst funded Health Ca
And the more of it i use the less that we can use for dialogue between you guys and the director. Director comey is here to talk about encryption and the problems it creates for Law Enforcement. This is a subject that a number of people here testified to the amount of interest in the subject all over the place right now, postsnowden, post a lot of debates about surveillance reform. Mr. Comey has a different perspective about the impact related to the federal and state Law Enforcement. The format will be simple. He is going to give a relatively brief set of remarks. I am going to ask we are going to move to a conversational format, ask a few questions, and then we will go to you and use as much of the time as possible for questions from the udience. When i do that, we are going to do that, you know, as trying to do it in as uninterrupted format as possible. Please signal to me if you want to get in, and wait for the mike to come around, and introduce yourself by your name and organizati