Testimony from the dhs regarding its decision to ban residents of new york state from trusted Traveler Programs like global entry. Like global entry. On february 5, senior ghs official chad wolfe wrote to new york officials to inform them of the ban, without notifying congress and the members of the new york state delegation who sit on this authorizing committee. Mr. Wolf cited new yorks green light law, a justification for the ban, stating that the law, quote, compromises cbps ability to confirm whether an individual applying for ttp membership meets Program Eligibility requirements. Mr. Wolf then stated, quote, because the act prevents dhs from accessing new york dmv records in order to determine whether a ttp applicant or reapplicant meets Program Eligibility requirements, new York Resident wills no longer be eligible to enroll or reenroll in cbps trusted Traveler Programs. After that announcement, this committee continued to receive inaccurate and misleading testimony that repeated
A House Homeland Security subcommittee is looking into the Homeland Security departments management of the trust and Traveler Program that expedites travel across u. S. Borders, such as, tsa pre and global entry. Some new york state residents have been banned from the programs due to state laws on sharing drivers license information with federal agencies. Will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the subcommittee in recess at any point. Good morning. We are convening today in our continued effort to understand why this Committee Received inact are the and misleading testimony inaccurate and misleading testimony from the dhs regarding its decision to ban residents of new york state from trusted Traveler Programs like global entry. On february 5, senior ghs official chad wolfe wrote to new york officials to inform them of the ban, without notifying congress and the members of the new york state delegation who sit on this authorizing committee. Mr. Wolf cit
We can then today in our continued effort to understand whyt this can be received inaccurate and misleading testimony from dhs regarding its decision to ban residents of new york state, trusted Traveler Programs, like global entry. On february 5th, senior dhs official chad wolf wrote to new york officials to inform them of the ban, without notifying congress and the members of the new york state delegation who sit on this authorizing committee. Mr. Wolf cited new yorks green light law as justification for the ban, stating that the law quote, compromises cbps ability to confirm whether an individual applying for ttp membership meets Program Eligibility requirements. Mr. Wolf then stated, quote, because the act prevents dhs from accessing new york dmv records in order to determine whether a ttp applicant or reapplicant meets Program Eligibility requirements, new york residents will no longer be eligible to enroll or reenroll in cbps trusted Traveler Programs. After that announcement, thi
hundreds of people have protested in several chinese cities in a show of defiance against the 0 coven policy. they ve been demonstrations in beijing, shanghai, and will hand the protest started after building fire killed at least 10 people in shin jane province. many say rescue efforts were delayed because of lockdown rules . senior u. s. medical adviser, anthony, vouch, he says he doesn t see the logic behind china 0 cobit policy in china. it was just a very, very strict, extraordinary lockdown. will you lock people in the house? but without any seemingly end game to it? if the end game was to, let s get everybody vaccinated, including and particularly the vulnerable, then you could see how a temporary lockdown like that. but they went into a prolonged lockdown without any seeming purpose or in game to it, which is really doesn t make public health sense. a display syrians have well, kentucky has planned ground offensive in the countries north. they say they re hoping it wil
in west jerusalem as killed at least one person, an injured several others. a 2nd explosion, 2 kilometers away. injured 3 people is re police say it was a joint coordinated attack. alan fisher has more from west jerusalem. now it s been several years since we ve seen attacks like this on the transport system. in jerusalem, you can see just looking behind me how busy these bus stops can be. and we now know that the police are going to be big, that every single one of these, holly stair, but bus dogs across the city. and every single dog that is capable of snipping out explosives has been activated in israel, and they will be carrying out random searches on the transport system here in jerusalem as well. there has been a security meeting in the last couple of hours headed by the prime minister. and also a number of politicians have said it s time for a strong response. elsewhere in the region, israel as close the gym lama and solemn crossings into janine and the occupied westba