Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. They held the Board Meeting in San Francisco this week where janet that p napolitano gave her address. Well sdatart anexploring a tuition policy. Napolitano faces additional challenges. They speak 120 million more from the state. Governor brown calls that unrealistic. No stranger to tough challenges. The former Arizona Governor was president obamas secretary of Homeland Security when she was chosen as the first woman to head the uc system. Her surprise election set up protest for immigration policy during her tenure in washington. Shes focused on governoring a system with ten campus, five medical centers and nearly a quarter million students. Scott shafer sat down earlier with janet napolitano. President napolitano, welcome. Thank you. This has been a tough few years for the university of california, budget cuts, tuition increases. You had rare good news and tuition for the coming year but you need help from sacramento. What do you need for th
The Supreme Court has two cases remaining, the hobby lobby case on the contraceptive mandate and Health Care Law and another on employee unions. Decisions on those will be announced monday, the final day of the courts term. We have many of this terms oral arguments on our website cspan. Org where you can listen to the cases as they were argued before the Supreme Court. One of the Court Decisions handed down yesterday and talked about during the event we just watched was the case involving an Abortion Clinic buffer zone. Politico has this story about the case. The Supreme Court on thursday unanimously struck down a Massachusetts Law that restricted speech outside abortion facilities. A decision abortion rights advocates decried as a threat to patients safety at clinics nationwide. The court said the state law violated the First Amendment because its buffer zone limited speech too broadly, covering 35 feet from the doorway of facilities including public areas like sidewalks. Thursdays de
Homeowners million have been helped by private lenders, who in many cases have used a similar framework to the one created by this program. Our program has created norms like requiring a point of contact for the homeowner, leading unemployed homeowners delay their mortgage payment for at least six months. This kind of collective action has transformed the way the mortgage industry assists struggling homeowners, spurred new tools to aid communities, and helped reverse the worst housing downturn since the great depression. This has been one component of the administrations effort to kill the housing market. We have taken other steps, improve the to housing market. We have taken other steps, including making it easier to refinance mortgages. Than 3s helped more Million People refinance homes. Even as we focus on refinancing, we have made strides to give communities a boost by establishing the hardest hit fun. In april, i traveled to detroit and witnessed how the fund is making a differenc
Facilities, these are licensed facilities. It is diligent work by a lot of federal agencies to get this work, and it is time consuming. Thats why we looked at some intermediate steps to increase bed capacity within custom and Border Protection. But you do have, i believe, additional requests that have been identified from omb that there will be Additional Resources required in the next year. We continue to work within our authorities and within the budgets we currently have. Mr. Vietello, can you tell us whether or not the Border Patrol as its presently staffed can meet this influx of young people coming across the border . As is typical, the men and the women of the Border Patrol have stepped up to this task. I think you heard the secretary describe that we were there on friday. We watched the hard, diligent, heroic work they are doing to make the best of the situation. Its our its my assessment and what we heard from the leadership on the ground down there, the agents that are involv
Wont affect it at all. But its become simply undeniable that president obamas policies, including his unilateral Deferred Action Program, as well as the perception that he is less than seriously committed to enforcing current law, and, in fact, has ordered secretary johnson to investigate and recommend a further relaxation of his enforcement policies, all of this has played a huge role in creating the perception to tens of thousands of unaccompanied children that you should risk your life and travel unaccompanied in the hands of the cartels to the United States because there wont be any consequences associated with it. Its that perception that the president continues to create by his silence, that is, the magnet for this ilLegal Immigration. Dont take my word for it. According to an internal department of Homeland Security memo, it says quote the main reason the subjects chose this particular time to migrate to the United States was to take advantage of the new u. S. Law that grants a