Before i begin i like to take a moment to remember my friend and our chairman, Elijah Cummings who we lost one week ago. Like others on this committee at the pleasure privilege to call elijah at my friend for almost 20 years. We worked the many issues that confronted congress. Mr. Cummings has bequeathed the legacy of Compassionate Service to those families in our society who still struggle to receive the full promise of the american dream. While he had an abiding faith in the goodness and kindness of humankind he was firm in his commitment to use his many talents and his power of position to weighin in behalf of the disenfranchised and reduce the suffering that he saw in this world. Elijah lived his life in a meaningful cause, a cause for justice and liberty and equality for all. We in our nation would be well served to follow his example and spirit had presence here on this committee will be sorely missed. Today we will examine the trump and ministrations decision to draw u. S. Force
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Robust discussion among our three expert panelists and a very strong question and answer period. So ill start, just basically with a few remarks. My name is anna gallagher, executive director of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network and we are an Affiliate Organization with over 370 members in 49 states across the United States. I always like to say were sort of the sleeping giant. We are a quiet organization. Folks might not know our name as quickly as they know the aclu or other organizations. However, we do a lot of the groundwork. The support and represent lower income immigrants across the United States. We do, we help build their programs. We train them. We do advocacy. We also have a religious Immigration Services division represents and helps bring sisters, brothers, priests, clergy to work in immigrant communities. And in the last year, we added our litigation. We up, increase our litigation quite a bit and have been involved as organizational plaintiffs or have been directly
And to see so many legal professionals advocates, students in the audience. And we are looking forward to a robust discussion among our three expert panelists and a very strong question and answer period. So ill start, just basically with a few remarks. My name is anna gallagher, executive director of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network and we are an Affiliate Organization with over 370 members in 49 states across the United States. I always like to say were sort of the sleeping giant. We are a quiet organization. Folks might not know our name as quickly as they know the aclu or other organizations. However, we do a lot of the groundwork. The support and represent lower income immigrants across the United States. We do, we help build their programs. We train them. We do advocacy. We also have a religious Immigration Services division represents and helps bring sisters, brothers, priests, clergy to work in immigrant communities. And in the last year, we added our litigation. We up, i
In syria between 30 and Kurdish Forces. Witnesses included a representative from the Syrian Democratic counsel the former special forces officer who fought alongside the kurds. Before i begin i like to take a moment to remember my friend and our chairman, Elijah Cummings who we lost one week ago. Like others on this committee at the pleasure privilege to call elijah at my friend for almost 20 years. We worked the many issues that confronted congress. Mr. Cummings has bequeathed the legacy of Compassionate Service to those families in our society who still struggle to receive the full promise of the american dream. While he had an abiding faith in the goodness and kindness of humankind he was firm in his commitment to use his many talents and his power of position to weighin in behalf of the disenfranchised and reduce the suffering that he saw in this world. Elijah lived his life in a meaningful cause, a cause for justice and liberty and equality for all. We in our nation would be well