Okay, good afternoon, everyone. My name is marcel womba, im president of the gulf states institute. I would like to welcome all of you to our talk on financing terrorism. One of the many attempts to prevent terrorism, cutting off the financial flow is the most crucial. It allows them to recruit, control territory, plan and carry out violent operations on a global level. There are emains a top priority for the u. S. As we seek to defeat Islamic State and other terrorist groups, the u. S. And its gulf arab partners have taken significant steps to stem the flow of funds to terrorist groups over the past 15 years. Really a very robust effort since 9 11. However, despite the various measures and regulations put in place, terrorist organizations continue to generate and come from the region to finance their activities. What more can be done, regionally and globally to stem the flow of money to violent extremists. We have a very distinguished panel with us today to answer that question and ex
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Good morning, everybody. Welcome. Im a Senior Advisor here at the csis. Its good to see lots of Friendly Faces in the audience. For those of you new to the headquarters, i know some of our panelists, this is their inaugural visit, welcome. After the session, we will be having a reception. We hope you can join us. Welcome, again. We are being joined via wide stream on internet as well as cspan. Keep in mind youre on tv as well as we are. But were very excited to not only be hosting this pooanel entitled assets. I could not imagine a better set of experts to speak to the range of past, current and future i e issues and challenges. Let me set the stage, in part, because weve gathered about two years ago. In what was happening systemically in terms of dealing with highend corruption. These issues are not new, of course. News a these are issues and regimes that will be with us for a number of years. What we want to do today is talk about an International Community in the u. S. On dealing wi
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
We cant hear you. Here it comes. Yeah, for each question identify the organization. Hello. Identify yourself and your position. Im a humble tax reporter and analyst. There three of us. Im not an expert about Social Security, but my understanding is that surpluses of the program for a given year invest in a trust fund and treasury bonds. They have a low yield. There was a plan to privatize Social Security. It would seem to me that having a slightly more normal its endless. For example, raisings and eliminating the tax cap. We had to pick and choose which to include. Especially in the trade off, we collected only 12 of what is commonly proposed for Social Security. So we did not test the options that would invest the money differently. That would be a great question to ask. Yes . A microphone over here. Im hannah weinberger. I have a methodology question. How did you get people to Pay Attention to these Detailed Survey questions that i was looking in the report and it looks like it took