Watch on demand any time, unfiltered, at cspan. Org coronavirus. All month on cspan, we are featuring the winners of our studentcam documentary competitions. High School Students created the video answering the question, what issue do you will most want the 2020 president ial candidates to address . Our second priced High School West award goes to micah matthew, rodriguez, and texas,ah in mckinney, where cspan is available through spectrum. Their winning entry is titled to be a citizen spokelier this week, i about comprehensive Immigration Reform and the crisis we have at our border. Final step of the Legal Immigration process. Since the countrys inception, the Legal Immigration process has continually adapted their legislation to the evolving situations of the country. Our current Legal Immigration system is inherently flawed. Supported Public Congress in taking up an Immigration Reform proposal. Problem still tend to arise. Processing delays between fiscal years 2016 and 2018. The backlog of cases exceeded five six 9 million. What aspects keep it from being legally effective . We need to make it a little bit more simpler. It should not be such a fickle assess that everyday people have to spend thousands of dollars to hire attorneys to figure out how to deal with the immigration process. One of the flaws is the sheer applying. People the government does not have the manpower to process the sheer number of applications coming in. Most influential positions. Under the executive branch, you have the department of Homeland Security that houses immigration and customs enforcement. And also customs and border protection. The executive branch also houses the department of justice which contains the immigration administrative courts. Power and thehas number of different ways just as that individual person. Obviously, he gets to a point the leaders of the different cabin and agencies. Those things matter because it is those individual agencies and many hundreds of thousands of people under them who are actually on the ground making the policies and the decisions that impact peoples lives. They do things based on the laws that are already on the books. New policy create outside the framework of the current law that is in the books. Every year, Congress Passed spending bills that gives allocations to the executive branch. You may remember the harris poll and its significance is that the controversy regarding the u. S. , ration system is not whether it needs to change come about what the change should look like. What does comprehensive Immigration Reform ideally look like . The systemic changes how we are going to ask a k the new policy. There are two concepts facing one another. Meritbased versus asylum based. If these concepts are contradictory, what should the focus be . Bringingked at families back together, refugees, asylum. By moving forward, i think we really need to look at a mix were different aspects of the economy in the population make up what do we need right now . Maybe we put in a mixture of what we have. The refugees, the family is. Then we put in meritbased. Positively contribute, why not bring in the best and brightest from around the world. I think we need to look at immigration from a different perspective and take it away from looking at the individual model. I believe our immigration system is absolutely broken. We need to spend a lot of time and doing what this ministration has done under the asylum protections. Requiring people return to countries they may never have lived in, contrary to international law, and they are not the america most people think we want to be turning our backs on people who really need help and i would say the same thing about refugee. We are the lowest number of refugee emissions in the history of the program and that is the thing we have to get back up. If the problems within our Current System are to be solved, the fundamental question is this. To acknowledge reform and essential Legal Immigration system. You can watch each winning studentcam documentary online at studentcam. Org. Cspans washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. , aing up this morning professor of epidemiology and medicine and professor at Columbia University discusses the latest in the u. S. Response to the coronavirus pandemic. How federal agencies like fema and the army corps of engineers are responding to the pandemic. And illinois democratic congressman danny davis on how the coronavirus pandemic has affected his chicago district and statewide in illinois. Watch washington journal live at 7 00 this morning. Join the discussion. Cspan has aroundtheclock coverage of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic and it is all available on demand at cspan. Org coronavirus. 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