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Enforcement priorities would result in only moderate reductions in overall removals. Would that make any difference if the president extended the guidance to cdp . Yeah, you know, and modest is so modest is not a very precise word, i think its not hard to describe a scenario where you could see removals go down by 10 or 15 or maybe 20 , or some of the scenarios that we described. But, certainly you know, cdp has as we described in our last report, theres been a sea change in how cdp does enforcement, just over the last less than 10 years, from mostly voluntary returns to overwhelmingly formal removals. So if what youre talking about specifically is reducing formal removals. You could reduce that substantially if you decided well go back to an era where youre going to violence tearily return most people. Which you may or may not tie to enforcement priorities, but having said that, the data do suggest that the great majority of people that cdp and prehengds, they apprehend within three d
Palestine now has an enhanced demand theing to return of artifacts is legally removed from palestine. Obligations. [indiscernible] and its need also to do that to deter domestic variations and further its standing in International States and protect against unlawful israeli conduct. As we mentioned, unesco membership, and also the u. N. General assembly resolutions, ability totine the ratify treaties and it has improved its bargaining position with israel. Thatnk it is important palestine may be treating this agreement as an occupied state. That is very important. Since the unesco membership and join international treaties, cents 2014, about four months, as we know, palestine identified 50 international treaties. Many of these treaties, as i mentioned, have a prediction of human rights have the protection of human rights in palestine. Treaties will provide palestine to demand from israel and other states to a baby rule of law. A baby rule of law. Icj sre parties to the tatute. Members
Something that is slapped together. So its being put together by people right there. I dont get the sense that this is being imported. To the extent that im wrong that this is something more sophisticated my sense is this has happened some time ago. Once the oil is refined you have testified that the assad regime is purchasing some of the oil. Some of it is being smuggled into the southern regions of turkey where you said the price of gasoline is higher than we would expect here. If you are purchasing barrels of oil at 30 or so a barrel you have reason to know this may be illicit oil. Are we doing enough as treasury of the United States to determine who the middle men are that are purchasing oil at 30 a barrel and make sure we are following that money into what accounts . That is exactly what they are doing, identifying the middle men. That is what i discussed more explicitly in my testimony. There is also a significant more diplomatic push to get the turks to do more in southern turke