And how immigrants are bedded. Congressman labrador of idaho shares the house judiciary subcommittee on Border Security. This is one hour and a half. Subcommittee on immigration and Border Security will come to order. Without objection, we declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to todays hearing on oversight of the United States Refugee Admissions Program and i now recognize myself for an opening statement. I have long been a supporter of us refugee admission programs and the importance humanitarian is missions it serves. The United States and the peace and democracy under which we live should give hope to those around the world to face persecution by their government. Their home commies can appoint the free of such [inaudible] as a former immigration lawyer i seen the us rap at work firsthand. I have seen those who have been able to avail themselves of it come to this country and five. Just like with many Government Programs that start out with best intenti
Has acknowledged they do not perform oversight of these programs. Remarkably, a similar argument for collection under these programs is marked by the arguments under the section 215 program. This is the promise of big data. This is the Technology Age in which we live. What it means is that massive amounts of information can now be collected in order to anticipate threats and to anticipate individuals who might engage in wrongdoing. That approach is what the founders rejected. While information is being collected under foreign intelligence authorities, in certain circumstances, it may be used and is being used for criminal prosecution. The problem is, our communications are now global. We have historically depended on the borders of the United States to protect us. We are no longer bound by geography in how we communicate. Our conversations go internationally routinely. When they do, they can be monitored under a mere yut of programs currently in place. Similarly, our private papers and
Then it said it planned to accept a floor of 85,000 refugees and at least 100,000 next year. Once here with Refugee Status those individuals can claim any job and collect any federal welfare benefit. Recent statistics from the department of health and Human Services office of Refugee Resettlement indicate that 75 of refugees receive food stamps and more than half receive Free Health Care and cash benefits. For refugees from the middle east the numbers are even higher. More than 90 of recent middle eastern refugees draw food stamps and about 70 receive Free Health Care and cash welfare. Refugee settlement also comes with security risks as we have witnessed with the surge of isis recruitment among, for example, somali refugee communities in minnesota. Anyone claiming to have a serious and honest discussion of Refugee Resettlement must ask the difficult questions about integration, how can we accomplish that. Assimilation, and community safety. This is certainly true with respect to count
Does this prompt any concern to have those close banking ties between the two countries. Maybe on the last question, one more thing where we need to strengthen is better common chain within nato. That it means that what weaker decision preparation and decision taking in nato. It means some more responsibilities to nato commander to make decisions in a case of any aggression. But speaking about banks, yes, some banks belong to russian investors but these banks are working accordingly to european regulations and we dont see any problems because our bank market is divided between we can say between two parts. Its swedish and postsoviet. Its russia and ukraine and we have also u. S. Investors in one bank. It means that three key investors in the bank sector but all is working accordingly to e. U. Regulations so maybe time for time we have some problems with some suspicious transfers of monies through our banks but our appropriate institutions follow that and all the time its controlling su
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