Violations because both of those could essentially put someone in the path of a removal action. So the removal after january 2014. So there is a bit more of a bright line. The numbers in that context will change as we move further and further from that day and still there is a future focus as opposed to the rich respective focus and then finally, we really see the importance of extending valuable resources on the person to enter the debate co into the country illegally in 2014 unless they fall under the one of the priority categories. Said that as the overall philosophy. The key and critical part of the memo to secretary issues for all intents and purposes and secure Communities Program and secure communities had been and remain a controversial part of enforcement priorities over the last few years in part because of what it was designed to be, what it became and this is actively noted, what it became as emblematic of everything wrong with the immigration system today. The somehow or other people get caught in a system designed that has no grace frankly. Once you are in the immigration system there are very few options for getting out of bed. So many of the complaints and opposition from us so many of the city and state ordinances being passed on to the Effect People thought why communities are getting trapped in a system that shoot people up and spit them out rather then gave any careful can do to ration. I am not in any way attempting to malign my brothers and sisters because we are talking about institutional systematic issues the secretary was attempting to address. In the course of this they were good individualized decisions made at the critical thing is to find a way to turn off their particular form of enforcement and come up with something new. The new program is the priority enforcement program. We have always got good acronyms. The thing that is critical about tap is where it was something where people in the communities had no control over decisions made or who would end in the immigration stream, pep is designed to engage from the beginning. And a number of ways it is a really Exciting Development in Law Enforcement because it is an attempt to marry at the Immigration Enforcement means we have with the Recognition Community engagement, Community Policing and involvement are an important part of creating a successful working enforcement strategy. With that in mind the primary things to know and understand what you have in your materials are it maintains the basic idea there was the founding of secure communities, the need for information sharing when people are arrested in fbi receives information about the biometrics and the information is shared with i. C. E. I. C. E. Officers spent a great deal of time looking at information and making decisions about who should we sort of tacked as someone who isnt enforcement priority and only then are they going to reach out to the communities and say this is somebody we want to bring back into our system and put in the removal process. It is not triggered by the mere fact someone is arrested but instead someone is convicted and that is a huge difference but again a critical juncture in decisionmaking looking at people who have been there. The general pattern will be and is that we actions to notify us 48 hours ahead of time when someone weve identified a separate he is going to be released. In some cases at the jurisdiction agrees we also can put a detainer against the person. In the past whenever the default mechanism, today it is to seek the engagement and involvement in notifying us and that means our folks are going out of working with individual communities to figure out what the dynamic will be. We recognize that all communities have the same priorities for department as so there is a negotiation. Its a radically different process that is done well and will allow us to maintain the need to enforce Immigration Laws against those who do us harm but ensure that we have a much better handle on creating the mechanism of grace and discretion that will allow us to ensure people who are priorities arent inadvertently caught in the system. I will admit that. Been returned to you, great. The secretary is germany was going to read that the program and announce a significant overhaul. I was think of my computer and my frustration that i have to reboot is pretty high. What is reception looking beyond your membership to the advocacy groups more broadly to the changes. Is it still a waitandsee approach . Thank you for the question. The association ultimately opposed the program described was so much controversy. But largely based on the impact in the community as well as concerns about legality and constitutionality of the requests use on a wide red basis for immigration and Custom Enforcement would request a locality would hold somebody for a longer period of time for an immigration purpose even though local Law Enforcement agency was done for the criminal justice or other purposes they mightve had. Kla opposed committees and on november 20th when the memo came out we were certainly pleased the secretary had signaled the need for reboot of the program. The memo to secretary issued specifically reference concerns that several federal court had issued decisions concerning the constitutionality of the program and the user detainers in the recognition of the constitutionality. Where we stand now we have initiated a specific opposition. The analysis we look at the issue from specifically concerns legality and constitutionality of the program. As mary mentioned, it will no longer be the default mechanism as we are pleased there is some shift away from Holding People and depriving them of liberty without probable cause is the basic framework of Fourth Amendment analysis. At least it wont be the default tax. The memo itself was not Crystal Clear what circumstances it will still be done and uses language in special circumstances detainer source will be issued. We dont really know yet and from an alist there, but we detainer us had been issued without a requirement of probable cause, the typical way it is done in criminal justice that has never been the practice for i. C. E. We are waiting to see how it is done in one of the challenges we know i. C. E. And dhs are proactively aggressively meeting with Law Enforcement sheriff and police do in a sense all the Programming Team collaboration. There hasnt been transparency from the federal agent he is so as to the baseline for what is going to be acceptable from a constitutional perspective because certain cities in new york or chicago will think thoughtfully how to protect Community Members but others like sheriff joe r. Pio in jurisdictions where there is no jurisdictions and allow them without making sure to protect the Constitutional Rights of those that apply to them. That would be our concern. The last thing i will mention since he mentioned the issue of sanctuary cities and emerging of the tragic murder of a young woman who shot walking with her father. That blew up the issue in the media can also force congress to look at this carefully during the month of july. Will face similar conversations through the upcoming months and they will be looking at it again. The big picture is is some kind of coordination is helpful between states and localities and immigration enforced them. How do you do that without scary immigrant communities to ink if they work with, report crime, go to the Police Protection that they will end up being deported. A woman came from Washington State came and testified before the senate back in july and said there were several examples she is aware of the one in my own mind as a federal court in colorado who was sexually assaulted by somebody in the parent decided we are not going to report this to the police because hell get deported if you even go to the police. Not only is that tragic event of, but a year later the same perpetrator sexually assaulted another young child and it was only at that point these families came forward. That is the other side of the question of how you keep communities safe. If theres too much collaboration from the perspective of the community between immigration and local Law Enforcement because local Law Enforcement is community safety, not necessarily immigration which is civil. Too much collaboration the community is afraid and that doesnt help anybody in terms of community safety. Just because i think its important to recognize and understand people are taking issues very, very seriously and the effort to try to find that balance is one of the reasons the notification component is so important and offers that sweet spot for many communities. They think we also have to step back and recall one of the reasons why the ongoing issue of trust is so great is again part of a systemic problem that we dont have comprehensive Immigration Reform. Occasionally people are like you are going back to the pollyannas to solve everything. But it wouldnt because even if we got comprehensive Immigration Reform would be a whole series of other things that needed to be fixed. What it would do is recalibrate the balance between enforcement and benefits related issues that exist in the law. As long as we have a system with our best effort there are very few alternatives for people once they are in the process, the fears will be very real and in the most perfect of world we will not be able to fix all of those problems. We can make a great advancement towards it if we start looking not pep program and other initiatives as a way to reach some level of consensus. Weve heard what the administration has done. A bit of a waitandsee approach. Gary, you are new on the hill and the prioritization of what you have on the fall, is the Emotional Energy translated into legislative act committee or other priorities up right now . Im supposed to say and youre not speaking behalf of the house issuing committee or members so that leaves me free to say almost everything. Let me rephrase my question. [laughter] working for the subcommittee selloff and was a vocal opponent of secure communities. It is headed in the right direction. To gregs point, we see concerns the constitutionality of detainer is and will be monitoring as its implemented. Prior to my arrival did take action on a bill h. R. 3009. The House Democrat were nearly unanimous in opposition to the bill. It would have taken money away from local Law Enforcement for those jurisdictions that did not cooperate because of the constitutional issues are the community tries. Lawenforcement that greg talked about. The senate has marked as scheduled for september so we will see how that comes down. I think we will maintain our opposition to legislation, legislative proposals that Alpine CommunityLaw Enforcement and dont do it cant sushil issues out there. I also think we will see what happens as they get through anything out trumps the issue. Pun intended. [laughter] to follow up at the end of the fiscal year, there are expired and authorization and immigration from. Our folks already looking at those of their own issues in terms of nospaceon and impact the immigration program. Way for programs that dissent is september 30th. People can invest a Million Dollars or 500,000 to get a green card for their individual spouse and family members, children. But in the conrad state 30 medical Doctor Program for doctors to serve in medically underserved areas and there are discussions going on right now to extend the programs. D5 has been a real focus around integrity measures, making sure the projects are subject to security laws and also addressing the target employment areas we dont have gerrymandering and crazily drawn to uas. We are looking at right now and i guess it is cautiously a mistake the program will be extended before the september 30th sunset. Another option or possibilities we have a continuing resolution in the programs if we dont have a deal to ask and. Was turned down to the challenges during the summer with unaccompanied minors. I know the chart is a little tough to read up on the screen. You will see there was nothing short of a significant increase in the number of unaccompanied children who are apprehended or encountered on the southern border beginning the in the end of 2013 and beginning of 2014. To clarify where focus on children from el salvador and honduras. Mexico did not be a similar spike. We will turn to greg now to give us a little insight about what is going on and would have been the challenges for the administration on the issue. If there is an issue displays the administration in a difficult spot in terms of policy endocrine picture in humanitarian response abilities are those from persecution assigned in the United States, what happened in Central America in terms of statistics lynden showed is a difficult moment now. What we saw happen in 2014 was not an increase in the numbers of unaccompanied children from primarily those three countries, el salvador, guatemala and honduras by family units in much larger numbers. About 70,000 unaccompanied children came last year and family unit about the same number. A pretty sizable, but not huge number. Tens of thousands of people. The spike was anticipated by those in the state department or International Crisis areas largely due to the crisis happening in Central America to inability of gang violence, Domestic Violence and the murder rate in honduras and el salvador are higher than theyve ever been. The capitals are in the top two or three murder capitals of the world. Domestic violence has little capacity for those governments to respond to incidents of Domestic Violence and reports either go completely uninvestigated were sanctioned by Law Enforcement. That is the crisis that killed a large migration out of the countries. That is the root cause that means what i hear. What happened with the spike last year but the Obama Administration a difficult place and what we saw was increase border restrictions and tightening of apprehensions, placing a famous in detention, shortterm detaining of the children in violation of the 2008 bought designed to protect traffic and the dems come into the United States. I would say for an association of 14,000 Immigration Lawyers we tend to be lawyers that are rather stodgy on any issue. Ive never seen an issue galvanized my association with them this in the many years because of the depth of concern for in particular on a continuing basis, families, mothers and young children, toddlers, even infants who are still nursing being detained on house and the people and facility set up very quickly last july and there was someone in new mexico shutdown in november that had 500 or 600 people in the conditions were not adequate and now two are operating in texas but have 1500 people, families detained there. To give you context in 2009 if facilities are used in texas were shut down because of lawsuits brought against conditions in the inhumane situation detaining families in jail like circumstances. That continues now. A few other nonprofits have been trying to provide some Legal Counsel and i will tell you it is hard raking. Im on the phone regularly with volunteer staff working in texas near san antonio and these are lawyers who dont do immigration fulltime or business immigratiimmigrati ons have decided ill take a week of my vacation and ill go work with these families. The attorneys are crying because they are hearing mothers and suicide after his efforts, children losing weight, 12pound or 15pound basis that it lost a third of their weight at risk of their health. It is tearing apart my own Association Come in to gravity. Governments need to do this generates from political pressure to demonstrate it has the borders and control in a border policy would not let hundreds of thousands of people come across not as directly intentioned to protect those seeking asylum. The rate at which the people qualify in initial interviews for silent is extremely high. 70, 80, 90 of people interviewed to see if they have a credible fear demonstrated. That is much higher than the National Average which ranges 60 . These people flee for their lives. Where we stand now is the administration has contended that the policy. I dont think it will change anytime soon. There have been two lawsuits filed out of reach decisions. One of february the court issued a junction and more recently a few days ago federal court in los angeles issued a decision. I wont go into details because at the time, but the summary that theres real concern about the practice of what the government is doing needs to change how it was treating these families and cannot hold them longterm. They need to release them on an expedited basis. The justification wants to deter more people from coming. It has to be done whether the person poses a threat to the community or flight risk. You cant just say we are afraid where people will calm. That is where the situation stand now had feel free with any questions. I want to quote on family distinction, the writing is unacceptable, unamerican and will end in mind that the florida settlement agreement. I do think its important to point out throughout the entire issue there is consistently been an evolution in the governments approach and the vast majority of people have been a very released on their own recognizance under a bond or