Appreciate the attention you have given. As i stated i would like to reiterate one continuing point regarding the detention facility. The president and the National Security committee have determined closing the detention facility is a security imperative. That is a strong term. The president in his leadership of the National Security team believe continued operation of the tension to detention facility weakens interNational Security. Closing guantanamos about protecting, not weakening. The importance of closing the detention facility is echoed by former president george w. Bush and a long list of former secretaries of state, secretary of defense, staff chairman and other former military leaders. As representative engel noted there was a letter by former flag officers including former commandant of the marine corps. Transfers from gitmo are in the National Security interest of the United States and are conducted in a safe and responsible manner. On march 23, 2016, i testified before th
Been workforce right now. I will jump in here on that. Am i on . Great. I will hold it up. I think its a great first question. Im excited about and i will tell you why. Theres problems with the immigration system. There are bad actors in our immigration system. Whether they are people who are taking advantage the people with immigration fraud, or whether theyre paying, forcing people to work for 5 an hour. I get up every single day and what we hear from our opponent is they find a problem with immigration system and they say, you guys just want more immigrants. Hold on a second. We are trying to fix the broken immigration system so let me explain what i mean. They are are people who in the Construction Industry and paying 4 an hour with no benefits. The people theyre paying for dollars an hour to are often put into position of do i call the police or do i worked for 4 an hour . I work in this space, you know, im a jew who grew up in st. Louis, missouri. The idea that if something happe