a lot of equity implications here. what if you don t speak english. what if you re just new to town and you don t have established community connections. all of these can be harder to jump through. and you know another barrier for lower income and often middle income parents is they have to go through that third hoop, the paper work hoop, yet another time if not more than another time because they have to apply for financial aide. covid made all of these things worse. one quote that stood out to me is from wendy simmons. she said ultimately the patchwork system exists because there seems to be a fundamental belief that women should be home with their children. and we know that is not the reality. is that something that you also found in your reporting? yeah, absolutely. it is seen as a public good, childcare and precool, any early
masks continue to be worn on board but a lot of them did not have the ability to be able to see this is a condition of carriage and if you don t wear one we will take you. all they can say is we really strongly recommend that you wear one. there is a real patchwork system around the country of when you have to wear a mask and when you don t, the government have always said that it s up to individual operators whether they take those measures and mandate as well as part of the condition of carriage. they strongly recommend that if you are in a crowd setting, that you do we the mask if you are inside. setting, that you do we the mask if you are inside- setting, that you do we the mask if you are inside. thank you very much indeed for that you are inside. thank you very much indeed for that update. well, the prime minister is hosting a downing street press conference at 5pm. you ll be able to watch coverage of that from li.30pm on bbc one and the bbc news channel. he is self isolatin
traumatized. that is i mean, part of learning that there are parents who are being deported without their kids. i mean, that s the u.s. government taking kids from their parents, keeping them. that s right. and forcibly sending the parent away. that s right. and there does not as far as we know, reporting from the new yorker today suggests there is no it s not that things are falling through the cracks or there s a patchwork system here that s not always working. it seems like there is no process for reuniting parents and kids once they re separated. is that true? well, from what i ve heard from advocates and lawyers, this is not unusual, that a parent s case will move through the system very quickly. they will be deported. and their children are here. and then bureaucratically the system has to figure out how to put those two people back together. because they go by different agencies. they re certainly obviously in different geographic i ve heard of separati
she has a bed, she s got good food. she still feels very alone. she s 6. she s 6. and authorities there have said to her that there s a chance her mother could be deported without her. so she s still quite traumatized. that is i mean, part of learning that there are parents who are being deported without their kids. i mean, that s the u.s. government taking kids from their parents, keeping them. that s right. and forcibly sending the parent away. that s right. and there does not as far as we know, reporting from the new yorker today suggests there is no it s not that things are falling through the cracks or there s a patchwork system here that s not always working. it seems like there is no process for reuniting parents and kids once they re separated. is that true? well, from what i ve heard from advocates and lawyers, this is not unusual, that a parent s case will move through the system very quickly. they will be deported. and their children are here.
technology? or are we woefully far behind with a patchwork system given the experience that you have? what would be better to try to give people even more confidence in the final outcome? for one thing would be to update the technology the people are voting on. through a variety of circumstances really, most of the voting machines the people are voting on were bought in 2003. that s before ipads came into the world. just to demonstrate a host of technological changes. so there is a lot better equipment that could conceivably be used. it s also very expensive. municipalities and counties are the ones who buy the equipment. they quite understandably want to fix potholes and improve schools before they buy voting machines that are used twice a year. there are some endemic problems in the system. now i want to speak to you as a knowledgeable republican. is that okay?