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And it demonstrates what happens when the president unilaterally decides to issue an executive order affecting immigration without securing the border. The number of children more than doubled between fiscal year 2011 and fiscal year 2013. Yet until just recently, the president did not even speak out to warn their parents and to tell them that the bjojourney wd be horrendous for their children and they would be sent home. We know many of these children have been abused or harmed on their way here. And when the wave became evident two years ago, the president took no action at that time to try to stem the tide. We know that it will take a long time before all of these children have hearings that could lead to their being support home, if they show up at all for the adjudications. So my question is what specifically is the administration doing to propose changes in the laws or regulations right now so that these children can be safely and immediately put on planes and returned to their p
Identify them as victims of violence, or persecution. Im willing to help. I know, two or three hours before the Vice President arrived to guatemala, you were planning to announce money we may want to look a little bit further than that. But i can assure you that i will fight tooth and nail, changes in the trafficking victims protection act. We have to do the right thing. We can and should work with you. We will help you. But, when you have an 8 or 9yearold girl being raped by gangs sending her up here. Or being sent by her parents to escape that kind of violence, im not sure americans all really feel that we should immediately send them back. We routinely ask these other countries to support refugees fleeing violence, lets do it ourselves. And look for the funding in a longrange plan. In the meantime, i hope the body will pass an immigration law. Anybody want to respond . I do. I have a letter written by a number of senators, including senators on this committee. And theres a sentence
Will be coming to our courts. It will be substantial. I want to help you with this, but how can you come to us with a budget request if you dont know how many courts or how its going to speed this process . I think every one of you talked about speeding up the process to making sure the kids get back to the appropriate that need to go back to the country. I want to be helpful. I want to vote for this. Senator, may i . Sure. The assumption underlying the request from doj is that well be able to add an additional case load of 55,000 to 75,000 cases a year. Overall. And right now they are handling how many a year . Right now the pending case load is 275,000. 275,000. Okay. Okay. Significant. How many kids are going to come into the border every day . These days, its up the total apprehensions of the kids unaccompanied is about 250. It was higher. Its down to somewhere between 200 and 250 a day. So we will be able to make significant inroads into these kids as far as moving them through th
Our governor jerry brown passed in his Budget Reserve funds that will address sfha concerns and make sure that they are not impacted by pace impacts mere in San Francisco, we will be participate ining the state reserve fund so that our Property Owners are fully perked. Green finance sf is the environmental solution weve been searching for in San Francisco that will build out local Energy Sources and will create local jobs, it will reduce the adverse effects of climate change, make it easier for Property Owners in our neighborhoods make Energy Efficient upgrades to their homes. We have more work to do and colleagues, i hope youll join me and many other city ride to reach our green house sf here in San Francisco, i want to thank everybody thats helped with this process, the department of the environment, department of public finance, the commission of the environment, as well as numerous other labor community, small Property Owner and Business People that were involved in this process, t