This mr. President. Having passed an amendment that would have said tier 3 countries in the trafficking in persons report of the state department would not be allowed preferential access to the u. S. Market unless they cleaned up their record, which had a strong bipartisan support of members of the Senate Finance committee and ultimately was incorporated in the t. P. A. , the trade Promotion Authority legislation that passed the senate and was sent to the house in good faith because of concerns that maybe that would undermine the transpacific partnership. In good faith i negotiated an amendment, a provision to change in the amendment that would have said you could still negotiate with malaysia, but they had to clean up their act. If you concluded that negotiation and they were part of t. P. P. , they had to clean up their act on Human Trafficking before they got the preferential access to u. S. Markets. I thought it was a significant give on my part considering the vote of the senate, but it was a goodfaith effort. So this wasnt even necessary to do unless you just want to give malaysia a pass. The goal was to take the full weight off of the t. P. P. Deal i should say take the full weight of the t. P. P. Deal off the trafficking and persons report process. Instead of choosing the route we worked out together, requiring the president to testify in writing that malaysia has taken concrete steps to deal with their very serious Human Trafficking problem the administration backed out. I see no reason why the comprehensive ban on fasttrack for human traffickers should be amended. I see no reason why my willingness to accommodate should be amended. This underscores the need for further oversight of the trafficking in persons process both legislatively and through the noble work of human Rights Groups here in washington and out in the field. I plan to work with my colleagues to advance my amendment to the state authorization bill passed by the Senate ForeignRelations Committee last month which requires the state department to notify congress of all trafficking in persons upgrades and downgrades 30 days prior to the release of the report. I am looking forward to speaking to the chairman of the Senate ForeignRelations Committee to see if he when in a very busy schedule because we have all of the iran nuclear review, but it seems to me that this merits a congressional hearing to determine what went on here. And if i for some reason cannot achieve that, then i may very well turn to the Inspector General of the department to seek a report as to what went on here. Despite the clear will of copping, this administration has made a mistake and will now have to answer questions as to its ability to objectively evaluate global Human Trafficking. The hardworking committed n. G. O. s who labor in the field to fight Human Trafficking and the countless victims who continue to suffer deserve an honest reflection of American Values not an arbitrary determination based on expediency and achieving a limited political objective rather than a real solution. I look forward to working with all the groups who have been instrumental in shining a light on the continued human rights abuses that take place in malaysia in cuba elsewhere to ensure that the integrity of the trafficking in persons report is restored. Thousands of men women and children around the world who are victims of Human Trafficking, it is on their behalf that i come to the floor. It is in their interests and in the interests of responsible trade policy that recognizes there can be no reward to nations who ignore these types of trafficking in persons and do nothing to end the scourge of what amounts to modernday slavery. One of the great moral challenges of our time. It is for the worlds 50 million refugees and displaced people, the largest number since world war ii, many of whom are targets of traffickers because theyre displaced have nowhere to go, they are preyed upon. We have the largest number since world war ii of refugees in the world. It is for the 36 million women and 5 million children around the world subjected to involuntary labor or sexual exploitation. For the victims of these crimes, the term modern slavery more starkly describes what is happening around the world and i will continue to fight against Human Trafficking in all its forms, and i intend to fight for the integrity of the report that is a critical tool for us to be able not only to pass the light upon Human Trafficking in the world but to get countries to understand that they must meet this great moral challenge and change the course of events in their country. And thats why i come so incredibly upset to the senate floor on something that i never would have thought would have happened mr. President. But it has. And we need to change it. And change the course of events. With that, mr. President i observe the absence of a on the next washington journal, ray lahood talks about the highway and mass transit funding and congresss attempts before it runs out next week. Will also take your phone calls to look for your comments on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is life every day on cspan. Cabinet officials returned tomorrow to testify on the it ran nuclear agreement. Energy secretary ernest ponies and treasury secretary jack lew. 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan three. Cspan gives you the best access to congress. Live coverage of the u. S. House. Congressional hearings and news conferences and every morning washington journal is life with elected officials, policymakers and journalists. Cspan created by americas Cable Companies and brought to you as a Public Service by your local cable and satellite provider. 15yearold Catherine Figaro a was nine when she watched her merits being arrested in a televised antiimmigration rate. Recently she sat on a panel of activists talking about sheriff jaropaios handling of the events. He has been elected six times. Hello everyone, this panel is called the people versus arpaio. we have an amazing panel. We will start out today with a small video. It is important to show the video because it showcases one of our own panelists and sheds a little bit of light into our world. Youll be able to see a little bit. There are some clips of the chain gangs, jails, and what he has done to our community. And the filmmaker is in the room and the fulllength film will be showing tomorrow at 9 00 a. M. In room 223 and catherine will be there as well. I want to invite everyone there. You should see the full film and join them tomorrow. Everyone there. You should see the full film and join them tomorrow. We will go ahead and get started and it is about a fiveminute clip for the movie. Breaking news coming into us right now. The Sheriffs Office is executing a search warrant. 25 different employees at possibly could be illegal immigrants. This is investigated by the Sheriffs Office for employers violations. I know how to solve the problem. Why do i get all of the heat because someone does something wrong and i use the word punishment, which no one else will use . Why should they not be punished . [crying] she is catherine for guerrilla, the phoenix girl whose plea to the president is being seen around the world on you too. Youtube. They were not born here and they say that is against the law. [speaking spanish] carwash. What house is this . My and. Are you staying with her . No, just yesterday. Today, i think i am going with my other aunt. There is only one reason it is you. 90 years old. I will vote as long as i am here. Can i be the sheriff at 90 . Most older people are afraid of children and afraid of people who dont obey the law because those people are nasty. They have to be punished. This year, immigration has become a source of fresh contention in our country with the passage of a controversial law in arizona and Immediate Reaction we have seen across america. 20 other states are considering similar legislation. This law does not fix the immigration problem. It adds new problems. Law or no law we will still do our crime suppression operation and continue enforcing illegal immigration laws. We are at 35 tonight. Now they are going to go to jail. We are scared to go out. If they have to hide, i have to hide. [speaking spanish] today, you will years in testimony on how it affects children, communities, and families. I will begin with catherine for guerrilla. I would like to send a message to arpaio. I am taking a little heat on my crackdown on illegal immigration. The Justice Department launched an investigation. Who do they think they are . This is my hate file. They get pretty nasty. Shows you how volatile this whole situation is. Is it taking . I dont know. Eric holder said there will be some responsibility. Your thoughts . Maybe it was not a correct remark to make. I work for my reputation and no one will take that away. Destruction of evidence financial fraud, abuse of power. This is the most out of control Law Enforcement in america. No one from the mexican on the street to the presiding judge of the criminal court no one is a safe. I kept thinking that maybe i would see my parents when i got back home. [speaking spanish] [crying] [speaking spanish] what do we want . Justice when to do we want it . Now the matter how it turns out i wanted justice. Period. With our blood sweat, tears. Get out of my country. I dont want anything that happened to have been again. To happen again. [applause] welcome, everyone. My name is Carlos Garcia and imd director. What we are going to do today is have a conversation with the six people up here and we will do a series of questions and open it up for questions from people in the room. I also wanted to recognize the parents of catherine who were also in the room. They are here and you saw them in the video and for their fight and continuing to support their daughter. I wanted [applause] we can get started with catherine and asking the question of what it was like. What is it like looking at the video and seeing what happened and in that moment, what was a like to see our parents being arrested on tv . Ms. Forfigeroa it was really hard. I felt alone like i was in a completely different world. I knew i had my family members with me but it was not the same. I knew that i had to fight for them to matter what [emotional] how they fought for me. They always wanted a good education for me. They are they are everything to me so i knew i had to fight for them. It was really hard. I i was scared i would maybe never see them again. I was scared of the got deported, i would stay here alone and nobody would want me because i wouldnt have any parents. I felt like people werent going to like me. [crying] i was really scared but once i started hearing about things i could do to help my parents, i did them, i fought for them, and i did everything so i could be them again. With them again. [applause] [applause] we are all very proud of you. Thank you for sharing. One of my mentors has been fighting for a long time fighting the whole time. I want to ask you, why did a rpaio do this . Why did you start doing this to our people . Let me take a few seconds to tell you how inspirational for those of you who were not here as this unraveled, this was arpaios first televised worksite raid and what catherine had to go through is to see their own parents taken away. What inspired catherine, she then entered inspired in turn inspired all of us in the community and i want to recognize her and her parents. She fought to get them out of that once they were out, they continued the battle to make sure it doesnt happen ever again. [applause] what inspires arpaio . What makes him who he is . He is a racist pig, etc. Etc. I think there is a certain version, a certain pleasure in what he does. Let me remind you that his first major what he calls crime suppression rates these are neighborhood raids where he would send hundreds of officers into them and build temporary jails in parking lots the first one was on good friday. It was on good friday and he was aimed precisely at the people who were going to mass and going to church. What we got to witness that day was people dressed well on their way to church or coming from church being walked through all of the media. Remember, this was the first one. All of the media was there. Local, national, international. They got to watch mexicans being carted. So, part of it is really, it is a personal hatred, a personal perversion, a personal sickness and him. The other part is pure politics. This is arizona, a very fine point of the arrow of hatred towards immigrants, towards mexicans, latinos. He has learned to exploit that. He is, we must concede, perhaps a sick man but a highly talented one at manipulating the media and in sharing his political longevity. Next, victoria lopez formally on the florence project. The torilla, who was arpaio victoria, who was arpaio before he decided to go after the community . Ms. Lopez interestingly, i had not caught the club before. He says i work hard for my reputation. He has been working hard at it for a long time. Certainly, one of the areas he has been the tory aslee notorious at by letting peoples rights is in the gl. Through his in the jail the tory us at violating all of you should participate in the action going on tomorrow afternoon in a campaign to try to shut down the city. Building tent city as part of his political strategy to show how he was so willing to go after people and punish people in a really degrading and dehumanizing way. We had been involved in litigation around the jail conditions for over 40 years now. That litigation has been going on longer than i have been alive, challenging the Inadequate Health care, the overall conditions in the gl documenting people having to be in the tents in oppressive heat. There are people currently dealing with the oppressive conditions. This is something that he continues to use as part of his political platform to gain favor with those who support him touting how terrible the conditions are touting having people in the jails where pink wear pink underwear that is an effort to dehumanize people in the community. Not just immigrants, but for people, people facing jail and the criminal justice system. That was clearly part of his political agenda and his political platform was around the conditions in the jails. We saw maybe we could market with the Sheriffs Office entering into an agreement with the federal government. It propelled the conversation about Immigration Enforcement and authorizing local agencies to engage in immigration activities. That was not that was through agreements a liver the country. Through that agreement and through that process, i would say it emboldened the share of and agency to begin the dramatic increase in Immigration Enforcement activity in the county. There have been particular moments certainly through what he has done in the gl and the area of Immigration Enforcement that has served as a platform for him for many years. This has been going on for decades. Thank you. Next, mr. Morrowms. Romero. She is working toward her deferred action. What was it like inside the gl . Please speak a little of what your experience was like. My experience was not the best. [laughter] it was something i never thought i would be living but unfortunately, i had to be in that jail for three months. I remember the ugly striped uniform that smelled horrible. Another thing was i had to share a room with over hundred 25 other girls 125 other girls. I had to share a shower. The food in there just the name sounds horrible. Slop. It is really smelly and it is food that i dont even think a dog would eat. There were times when the sl op had worms and they said that was fine and it was just vitamins. There was a time i got my milk and it was rotten and they said i had to drink it that way. Another thing every time i would visit, they would handcuff me to a table. I was not allowed to have contact with my family members. [crying] im sorry. After those two months, i was transferred to the detention center. When i got there, they offered me an application to work. I said i would not take it because the reason i was there was because i was working and i didnt think it was fair to go in there and work for them for one dollar a day. Thank you. [applause] next, jose. What was the raid like for you and what was your experience like and can you paint a picture of that experience . What were you thinking when that happened . [speaking spanish] thank you for being here. [speaking spanish] my name is jose and i was one of the many victims of arpaio. [speaking spanish] october 18, 2012 was a normal day like any other at my job. I left my home around 4 30 in the morning. I never expected that this would happen to me. [speaking spanish] i arrived at work and we had to load the trucks with material. [speaking spanish] all of the sedin, we heard people say all of the sud den, we heard people say the share ofs arrived sherriffs arrived. We were completely surrounded. It was probably 6080. We were told to sit on the ground. Not to move or to try anything. They had us from 5 00 until 9 00 in the morning sitting on the ground. [speaking spanish] as soon as i saw it was the sheriff, i was scared for my family. I knew the share ofs sheriffs were deporting people. [speaking spanish] i thought i would be deported and never see my family. I didnt know if to call my wife or leave it. [speaking spanish] i finally called her while no one was looking. [speaking spanish] and the sheriff saw me and study would break the phone. Said he would break the phone. I told my wife that arpaio was there and he would take me. We were transferred to 4th avenue jail. They had us overnight and a little of the next day. They transferred me to the jail. I was there for 4. 5 months. It is a terrible, ugly place. I would never wish it on anyone. The food was terrible. [speaking spanish] there are many times i preferred not to eat at all. Most of the food is rotten. [speaking spanish] the clothes you had to wear whether they fit or not. The rooms were cold. Imsi am sick. I have a