[applause] felicia thank you so much. It is finally warm and sunny. I appreciate you all being here. I think i am so excited to hear about the conversation. I was just talking to marcelo about some of the research theyve been doing at ucla. I see other people here, roberto, whos done some research on dhaka students their outcomes barriers for , those who havent accessed the daca program to come forward, so i know you all will have a really wonderful discussion. Im here to talk about what the administration is up to and, you know, hopefully we can all Work Together to continue to help individuals get that access to temporary relief and work authorization. So for those of you who dont know what daca is, its the deferred action for childhood arrivals process program. It was implemented in it was announced in june of 2012 and then implemented in august of 2012. We had 60 days to work with dhs to get the program up online so that young people who know this country, know this is their only country grew up pledging , allegiance to our flag, want to contribute to our country could come out of the shadows and get access to temporary status call deferred action and also be eligible to apply for work authorization. So since the program was launched in august of 2012 several hundred thousand about 650,000, actually individuals have come forward and received daca. When we were doing the research on whether to do the program how to do the program, its impact, we assumed about a Million People might be qualified for the program. And we also understood that there would be people that would probably age into the program over time if it existed for several years, as it seems that it will. And so the fact that weve been able to actually bring 650,000 folks out of the shadows out of that one million to us is a success. Obviously, the bigger, the bigger challenge is tackling Immigration Reform, and we all want to get to passage of comprehensive, meaningful Immigration Reform that would affect the 11 million, but also folks waiting in green card backlogs, people who want to come here as students or entrepreneurs, employers who are doing right by system and are getting undercut by unscrupulous employers, that is the main and the big goal that we all continue to strive for. In the meantime, there are things we can do, and so daca is an example of something we are doing as an administration to try to make sense of the system. We are operating in the confines of a brocken law, so you have to find ways to make the law work for our country, work for our economy, immigrants, refugees and others. So daca was an attempt to do that. Since then, as you all know, we have had an unsuccessful unfortunately unsuccessful effort to pass legislation in the congress. We did get a piece of legislation that was, you know not perfect, but pretty darn good out of the senate in june of 2013 and werent able to get something passed out of the house to form a bill that could get to the president s desk. So as a result of this, the president last summer in about june had a conversation with Speaker Boehner about his interest in really seeing legislation get done. We were only a i few months left only a few months left into the last congress, and we felt that our window was going to slip if they didnt act last year. The speaker was having his own challenges as speakers often do, im sure, and was not able to move legislation forward. So the president decided that he could really wait no longer for legislation to happen in the house and wanted us to look at the current law and see what else we could do to make the system work better. So there are a number of things in that we have done. Weve done some work around making our enforcement priorities smarter and more effective so that theyre going after the serious criminals, National Security threats, recent border crossers, and theres ongoing work in that space. We also have done a lot to something that wasnt really highlighted as much but is starting to get highlighted more as things get rolled out we announce a bunch we announced a bunch of changes we were going to make to the Legal Immigration system. Things like changing regulations to allow s. T. E. M. Student who graduate who were foreign born to stay in our country and continue to contribute while getting their education. Theres been some changes related to people who are waiting, h1b workers who are waiting in the backlogs, the green k5rd backlogs green card backlogs, to the allow their spouses to work in our country so we dont lose their talent, and they dont leave the country and can actually help improve the economy by allowing their spouses who are often very skilled as well to work and to get work authorization. Of course, the big thing that got the headline and continues to get the headline is our expansion of the daca program and the creation of the deferred action for parents of u. S. Citizens and lawful permanent residents program. The daca program. So those two, the changes that we made to daca to expand that program and the creation of the daca program would have impacted will impact about four Million People. So as you all know, we are currently in litigation working towards getting to a place where we can actually implement these two reforms. We were about to implement them in february of this year, and we a Texas District Court judge has stopped us from doing that by issuing a preliminary injunction. So we feel very confident about our ability to implement the program and to continue to expand the daca program. We wouldnt have pursued them if we didnt. And it was actually a very healthy debate within the administration, dhs, doj and others around the table about whether we could create a dapa ca program and whether we could expand the daca program. So before we made that decision, we felt very confident in our legal footing and in our ability to and our authority to do that. Despite that, were dealing with the challenges in the courts and well continue to aggressively pursue our remedies. But really in the meantime since we cant implement those programs, it is really important to focus on all the other things that were announced and the successes of the daca program. You know, really its amazing to me, i meet people every day or every week, the president has met many people who have benefited from daca. Hes received letters from parents, from kids who have as a result of dr. Daca, been able to really pursue their dreams, but also contribute to our country. So we hear about people who are, you know, now at mass general becoming mds, people who were working in the Service Sector which is an honorable profession, right . If thats what you, be thats what you pursue. But if you have the skills to do more and contribute more, we want you to do that. So we have people who are now helping create i. T. Structures, things i dont really understand in terms of the technical and i. T. World, engineers, attorneys, other health professionals. And so thats really something that we continue just to to celebrate at the white house. Because it gives us inspiration to continue the work that were doing to pursue the larger reforms legislatively, but also our administrative reforms that are temporarily stopped at this point. Im excited to hear about the wonderful research folks have been doing. It helps us build the case for our continued action in the daca expansion and dapa space because we know the individual oneonone stories, but you do need the research to help back up some of the claims and some of those anecdotes that you hear. So i look forward to hearing about that. And just one other thing we are thinking a lot about is the renewal process. Everyone got daca, we want them to keep it as long as theyre qualified. I know one big worry i had as we were rolling out the new programs was that people would forget about the fact that they actually have to renew their status. The daca status is a twoyear status, its temporary status but we did last year roll out the process for how you can renew your status. Its weve tried to keep it streamlined so that people who have already proved educational requirements dont have to resubmit documents and things like that. And as of this as of now about 150, 200,000 individuals have submitted and received renewal. Thats a good number of the folks that their numbers were coming up. One challenge we have is that its a rolling basis, right . Its not the kind of thing where everyone had to reply by a deadline so everyones status will be up on y date. Everyone chose to receive daca at different times, so its important as we do our work talking about the successes that we also remind people that in order to continue in those successes and to reach even further, that individuals do renew their status. I often say that, you know everyone is a little bit, can be a little bit tardy, young people in particular with meeting deadlines, and the professors in the room probably know that better than i do. So its important that we all remind people that they need to apply at least 120 days before their status runs out, but at but really on the 150day mark is when you can start applying and folks should really be striving to apply at that point. But anyway, so thank you very much for hosting this event and for continuing the discussion about our successes with daca and happy to answer a couple questions or, if not, i can turn it back over to the man whos going to start the panel. [inaudible] felicia if i answered all of the questions, that is fine. Naomi Naomi Verdugo with army. Has the texas injunction impacted the ability ore new or the length that they can renew for . Felicia people can still come forward if they have not applied before, and they can still renew their status. The one piece of this that did get impacted by the injunction is we actually were we announced in november that we were going to give people threeyear status versus twoyear status. We have reverted back to the initial, the original twoyear status. So people do have to renew every couple years. Well, great. Well, enjoy the rest of your day and enjoy the wonderful, the wonderful panel. Thank you. [applause] thank you so much, felicia. Right now i think we would like to turn it over to the principal investigators for the reports you all pretty much have in your hands. When this report came out, it was in the shadows of the ivory tower, it sort of highlighted a lot of the issues weve been talking about and hearing stories about for many, many years, and so im really excited for them to go over some of the principal points of the report. So id like to invite the codirector of the institute for immigration globalization and education at the university of california at los angeles as well as dr. Marcelo who is also a coprincipal investigator of the report where theyre going to go over the report for us for a couple of minutes so we can all sort of see the issues that were dealing with right now. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you, c. A. P. , for organizing this event. Three features at the heart of the current u. S. Immigration are in some ways quite unique. First, we have a large, the largest number of immigrants in the world, the second largest country of immigration today is the russian federation, and we have three times more immigrants. The second fundamental feature is todays immigrants are the most diverse in the history of our country. If you take our two largest cities, if you take new york and los angeles. Children from approximately 185 plus Different Countries and territories who got up this morning got onto bikes, got into , subways, got into cars, to buses to go to school. That simply has never happened before in the history of the world. Our cities now contain entire range of the human, of the human condition. In los angeles we have something that, again, has never happened before in human history. We have roughly a dozen plus nations that now have los angeles as their second largest city. Thomas jefferson once said we all have two cities. Our own and paris. He was right. The world has two cities today their own and l. A. , los angeles and new york. Armenia, cambodia, el salvador, guatemala mexico. These are countries that now have their second largest population in los angeles. Another fundamental feature is the tolerance that weve developed over the last two generations for a very, very large number of unauthorized immigrants in our country. Were less than 5 of the worlds population, today we probably have about a quarter of all the unauthorized in the world. Of course, the current pause in the comprehensive Immigration Reform seems to be set on a kind of interminable mode. And and as we continue to deal with what felicia called a broken system, immigration remains our concern or our attention to immigration remains episodic. Now we pay attention, now we dont. And its mostly crisisdriven. Yet, of course, the story of the great mass wave of immigration of the last two generations is a story that has unfolded quietly and behind the scenes. The story of the unauthorized, use young emerging adults. , and college is really fundamentally about the working, the longterm workings of immigration in the long run. Over the last generation, weve seen the children brought to our country grow and graduate from our schools at larger, in larger and larger numbers and we have in this emerging and somewhat more recent phenomenon of large numbers of unauthorized in colleges. As our country continues its long pause on immigration, young people are a big, big part of the College Experience in our country today. We recently surveyed 909 undocumented undergraduates across 34 states that immigrated to our country from 55 Different Countries, and they attended an array of two and fouryear public and private colleges that range in selectivity. It is the largest study of its kind focusing on the experiences of emerging adults in the college setting. The students are studying hard and working hard, and they long to belong. The majority of them, 68 , are first generation to college. Not unique to this population, but nevertheless a challenge to them as they have limited guides to navigate in and through college. Their major of choice by far were the s. T. E. M. Fields, science, technology, engineering and mathematics, which accounts for 28. 5 of the reported majors. And clearly are relevant fields for the 21st century knowledgeintensive economy. They yet live in limbo. Many feel invisible, overwhelmed , and psychosocially stressed. The data in the report paint a alarming picture of what undocumented College Students are facing in our country today. There is a tremendous amount of juggling in the lives of these young folk. Our data suggests that 61. 3 of undocumented students are coming from families living on an annual Household Income of less than 30,000 a year. 72 of them were working while attending college, taxing heavily their ability to succeed academically. More than half of the students in our survey 56. 7 reported being extremely concerned about paying for their college education. Here you have some of the quotes. There are questions of concerns structured around finance housing stability. Among the students who reported stopping their studies temporarily, 73. 9 indicated Financial Difficulties the primary course for stopping out of college. 72 of those who were working reported complications from having to juggle long hours at work, difficult and stable unstable commutes and their studies. Such the youth often felt left out of much of College Campus life in their own experiences. The study also found that more than three quarters of the students reported significant worries about their own detention and deportation. More than 55 indicated that they personally know someone who has been deported including a parent in 7 of the cases, or a sibling in 3. 2 of the cases. One of the most alarming things findings in the study, the anxiety scale was the determination of the Financial Hardship and fear of deportation created a perfect, perfect psychosocial storm of stress and anxiety. Undocumented women College Students reported anxiety rates triple the norm of the general population. 37 versus 9 . That is about the clinical level. The males in the sample had anxiety rates five times higher than the norm population. 29 versus 4 being the cut rate for clinical levels of anxiety. Adding to the stress, the majority of the subjects, 67. 6 were first generation to college with neither parent having attended schools. These are the anxiety attacks. Data. Use youth in a way embodying the very critical chapter in the origins of totalitarianism talks about what happens in a democracy when subjects lose the right to have rights. Children, youth, emerging adults huge, huge numbers and the find themselves in a moment of longing to belong. On average, the emerging adults in our study arrived in the United States when they were six years of age. When felicia said this is the only country they know, this is in fact correct. The children are de facto American Children in the most fundamental identity clusters that shape our experience our , sense of who we are. They are american in all aspects. Indeed, an overwhelming 90. 4 of the respondents reported they would become u. S. Citizens if given the chance. They report a relatively high levels of Civic Engagement in ways that are not often registered by our standard mechanisms for assessing civic comportment and Civic Engagement in the social sciences. Of course, the young folks in the study face real uncertainties about their future in the United States. I am now going to turn it over to robert who will address more directly policy issues relating to Higher Education institutions serving the students. Thank you ray much. Thank you very much. [applause] robert good morning. I am going to focus on the results relevant of policy. I think a very important contribution of the study is its ability to represent the remarkable heterogeneity in the undocumented student population. So, undocumented students are black, white, latino asianamerican and pacific islander. The representing missions along the full spectrum of the socioeconomic status. They also have a range of immigration history. As marcelo mentioned originati