While the core was zipping, enforcement continues and the courts continued to receive cases. This was exacerbated by the border influx that began in the summer of last year. From july 2014 the time eior started tracking these Border Crossers until september 30th, 2015, more than 100 cases have been filed in the Immigration Courts nationwide. Were taking steps to increase our capacity to adjudicate the cases. Hiring judges is my first priority. Im pleased to report significant progress on this front and greatly appreciate congress providing the funding necessary. Over the past year 23 new Immigration Judges have entered on duty and as of this week the attorney general selected another 37 individual to serve as Immigration Judges after a thorough and rigorous hiring process within the department. The individuals are now undergoing the required background and security checks before they can hear the cases. Many other candidates are going through the final stages of the review department b
You to a panel on domestic security at the center sr. Strategic and International Studies in washington, d. C. Thats live at 10 00 a. M. Eastern. Then a discussion on the Islamic State and al qaeda. That will be live from new america at 12 15 p. M. Eastern. Later canadian governor general David Johnston will outline the liberal party agenda from the throne, live at 2 30 p. M. Eastern courtesy of the Canadian Public Affairs channel. Comes up this weekend on cspan, saturday night at 9 00 eastern, the nation magazine hold a discussion on inequality in society. Speakers including former labor secretary robert rice and van jones. You have a third leg in the Progressive Movement which is the Racial Justice leg which has no home and no candidate. And youre talking about the dreamer on the latino side, the black lives matter movement, youre talking about i dont know more among native americans. You have a Racial Justice third wing of the party with no candidate or a voice or a pretension of a
Recently. This is just over an hour. Good morning. The committee will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare recesses. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on oversight of the executive office for immigration review. And uncharacteristically, im not going to begin by recognizing myself for an Opening Statement. I am going to introduce our witness and say welcome to him and ask if he would please rise so i can administer an oath. And then i will probably introduce you. May the record reflect that the witness answered in the affirmative. This mornings witness is mr. Juan osuna, appointed as executive director in may 2011, acting director from december 2010 to may 2011. Prior to that, mr. Osuna was the department of justice as an associate Deputy Attorney general from may 2009 to june of 2010. He was a Deputy Assistant attorney general in the civil division, office of immigration litigation from september of 2008 until may 2009. He served as chairman of the board of tkp
There ought to be a position where you tell people, even confidentially, what you are doing, and make sure there is responsible oversight. I said that congress has been in adequate. Yemen and a call from there is no evidence that the person is connected to a conspiracy, why would the nsa look at Something Like this . If you do and you are in contact with someone, you know, frankly, your nextdoor neighbor or your girlfriend may be looked at to determine if there is some kind of cell being form that can put people in the United States in danger. Inaction, itess has been intentional. No one wanted to dive deep into the agency and it would have made them a lot of enemies. Edward snowden has given an opportunity for Congress People to have a political shield and go to oversight without seeing any political retribution. Thomas jefferson said that, when the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. I want to reinforce that. If we fea
I dont think it is very effective because it is not sbet greated, and you have to work with private and Public Sector benefits and support, getting them to Work Together, even getting their rules to Work Together on behalf of your clients is chappinging. Want to hit something, mrs. Reynolds, you just said. There are generations of poverty, and it becomes very difficult to change that dynamic. When there is ly a crisis, and we dont stay. The cries we cant do transportation, food or health care, but we can do housing. Then we walk away. We go back when there is an tective service issue, and then we walk away. The 1 of all the entitlement, benefit spending less than 10 of federal spending on any of those programs goes to individuals who could in fact work. We focus on that 9 , talking about how we should do it. We need to realize that we have a population that is going to need generations of support and a whole new dynamic of what it means to be a working household and lifted out of pover