Were focusing the use of our resources to deport and remove people on felons, not families. We want to stop tearing families apart. [ applause ] were emphasizing national security, Public Safety and Border Security over tearing families apart. We have created a new defer ed we have created a new divert Action Program for parents, for those who have been in this country for years who have been integrated members of society. There are by most estimates Something Like 11 million undocumented immigrants living in this country. The reality is that given our resources, theyre not going to be deported by any administration, republican or democrat. The most striking thing about that number of people is at least half, perhaps more than half have been here in excess of ten years. So the president and i in november directed the creation of a new deferred Action Program for those who have been here five years who have children who are citizens or lawful permanent residents and who have committed no serious crime. The reality is we have to deal with these people. We have to account for these people. And we should encourage them to come out of the shadows. As all of you know, our actions have been challenged in the courts. And i thank this organization for your support of our position in that lawsuit in texas, the National League of cities filed a brief that i think says it best. Dacca and to be baa the deferred Action Program for parents, will fuel Economic Growth in cities across the country, increase Public Safety and Public Engagement and facilitate the full integration of immigrant residents by promoting family and limiting family separation. Thats from the National League of cities. Thank you. For my Homeland Security point of view, from my Homeland SecurityLaw Enforcement point of view, we need to encourage people who have been here for years to come out of shadows, be held accountable. Frankly, the litigation and the decision and the injunction puts us in an untenable position. The judge does not quarrel with the notion that we have the ability to engage in prosecutorial discretion. Prioritize criminals over those who have been here and not committed any serious crimes. I want to take the additional step and encourage them to come out of the shadows so that we know who they are. The injunction basically prevents us from doing that. Were supposed to somehow leave these people in the shadows. We want to take steps to bring them forward, have them pay taxes, apply for deferred action and apply for a work authorize, to encourage these people to be participants in society, report crimes, pay taxes, and get on the books, so the only thing ill say about the case is this is what appeals courts are for. So what we say, what we must say to people in your communities who ive personally met with now, dont lose hope. As Martin Luther king said, the art of the moral universe is long but it always bends toward justice. Those who in this country struggle for citizenship, struggle to be something more than a second class person know that history is on your side. Now heres my ask. We have eliminated through our executive actions one of our executive actions, the secure Communities Program. Secure communities, the reality is was controversial legally and politically and weve replaced it with a new program called a priority enforcement program. In my view working together with mayors governors, sheriffs, Police Chiefs so that we can focus our resources on convicted criminals is a Public Safety imperative. That was the goal of the secure Communities Program, but it had come legally and politically controversial, but the overarching goal in my view is a Public Safety imperative. In 177 jurisdictions, states, cities, counties, to one degree or another, there were limitations placed on that jurisdictions ability to cooperate with our immigration personnel in the transfer of criminals for purposes of removal. Since january 1, 2014, over 4,000 detainers by our enforcement personnel were not honored. Frankly, in my view, this state of affairs puts Public Safety at risk. So weve done away with the secure Communities Program and created a new program in its place which in my view solved the legal and political controversy. Were no longer placing detainers on individuals except if there is probable cause to solve the legal issue. Were replacing that with requests for notification. Were no longer putting detainers on people based simply on an arrest. Were now only seeking the transfer of suspected terrorists, felons, convicted felons, those convicted of aggravated felonies josh those in street gangs. Those convicted of significant misdemeanors and those convicted of three or more misdemeanors. Heres my ask. We want to work with you to restore this relationship. Weve replaced secure communities with a new program for the benefit of Public Safety, but i need a partner in those in this room, in governors and mayors, county commissions and so forth. Weve done our part to end the controversial secure Communities Program. Now i ask that you and others get with your city attorney, your city counsel, your police commissioner, your chief, get ahold of the policy document that i issued in november to see how weve replaced the secure Communities Program for the benefit of all of those we serve, and if youre one of those 177 jurisdictions, you will get a knock on the door from me, because we want to work with you to rebuild this relationship. Many my view, it is a Public Safety imperative. Elsewhere in our department, were moving forward on our Cyber Security mission. We had legislation passed late last year. The administration has a new proposal for Cyber Security this year which we hope the congress will act on. Were doing a number of things to reform the way in which we do business in the department of security. The department of Homeland Security, weve filled all the senior level vacancies. Were rebuilding morale within the organization. Were moving in the intersection of more transparency and so forth. So this is a good time right now for Homeland Security. We have a new budget, and were moving forward with our very Important Mission but any overarching message with all of you is it takes a partnership with the men and women in this room for Homeland Security, for hometown security, for safety for all the people we as Public Servants represent. The last thing ill say to you is for my part i recognize that Homeland Security is a balance. Its a balance between basic physical security and our american values. The things we cherish, our right to travel, diversity, the diversity we cherish, our immigrant heritage we cherish. I like tell audiences that i can build you a perfectly safe city. We could build higher walls. We can interrogate more people. We could erect more scanning devices. We could screen more people to create a perfectly safe space, but it would not be a shining city on hill. It would be a prison. So Homeland Security must be a balance between security of our people and the preservation of the things that we value as americans. I look forward to working with all of you in the days ahead on our joint Homeland SecurityPublic Safety mission. Thank you very much and thank you for listening to me. Secretary johnson on behalf of the National League of cities and its members, i want to thank you for joining us today. I also want too thank you for all the work you do to keep our cities safe, our country strong and our citizens protected. It is now my great pleasure to introduce the members of this afternoons panel on infrastructure and Climate Change. At this time let me introduce our panel and each of these panelists are incredible folks and what they do on behalf of all of us and in their particular focus for us with cities. First dr. Ernest moniz, the secretary of the department of energy. [ applause ] please join me also in welcoming gina mccarthy, the administrator of the Environmental Protection agency. [applause] and finally i would like to invite to the stage peter rogoff who is the undersecretary of transportation. Peter, thank you for joining us. [applause] im going to ask each of these panelists to just give us a brief comment and then were going to go into a series of questions that are topics that are so important to us as cities as well as in their realms of responsibility. Mr. Secretary to you first. Actually. It doesnt matter. Mr. Secretary. Why dont you start . Thank you, mayor becker and also greetings to my administration colleagues here. Im not going to get into things that you know very well like the importance of cities and the importance of cities also in the context of our climate challenge. But let me focus on a few items in these opening remarks. Of course, all of you have tremendous responsibilities in terms of managing a lot of infrastructure in this country. Let me say a word about the core Energy Review that we expect to have coming out in a few weeks. This is a study thats been going on for over a year across the administration looking specifically at the issues of Energy Infrastructure. Transmission, storage, and distribution of energy that includes electricity and fuels. It includes looking at reliability, resilience, safety, security of infrastructure. And well be coming out with that shortly. Some of the findings in there, ill just note, things like looking at analyzing the risks from storm surges, for example. Theres modelling there showing that category one storms could inundate about 1,000 vital substations over these next decades. Heat waves, degrading our infrastructure but also increasing things like cooling requirements. Oil and gas supplies depend upon reliable electricity to operate but in turn, particularly our power sector relies on natural gas, a complex interdependency that we have to be careful about. The energy industry, another different aspect is by 2020, we expect to need to fill about 2 million jobs in the energy industry, and, of course work we need to, therefore, focus on some of the training areas which we are doing. The in addition, some of the outcomes of the qer are already in our fiscal year 16 budget, so i can talk about those. For example, we will have in there 63 million proposals for state grants for reliability and for energy assurance. So hopefully the states, the cities will be working together to come forward with those planning activities which then in turn can lead to eligibility, we hope, for what will be major Infrastructure Project support. Also in the budget theres something called the local energy program, and that is 20 million to help cities and counties accelerate investments in efficiency and clean energy. So these are just some of the items that are in that budget. Let me just mention two new things today. We are issuing now a notice of Technical Assistance for our 16 Climate Action champions. One of them is seated here at the table. So hes happy. Maybe there are 15 more of you out there happy with that particular grant. But also were also pleased to announce 6 million for our Clean Cities Program for alternative fuel Vehicle Market growth projects, so this will support 11 communityled projects to reduce market barriers and improve buyer awareness of plug in electric and other alternative fuel vehicles. One such project will enable visitors in orlando, for example, to rent and receive information on plugin electrics and a whole bunch of other projects as i say that will be announced today. To those are just a few of the things that we have moving forward in terms of clean energy, climate, and Energy Infrastructure reliability and resilience. Thank you. Great. Thank you so much, and i hope everyone is taking notes on opportunities there may be to help advance efforts in your community through these department of energy initiatives. Administrate. First of all, thank you for moderating and thank you for being one of the really best mayors in the u. S. Its so exciting to see all the work youre doing. And hes also finding time to help with our committees, and so i thank you for being a great advisor to the agency. First of all, thank you, and thank you for letting me be back again. I dont know what i did wrong last time but maybe i did something right. Its great. I know youre all dieing to get to your questions. You always are. We always follow up with them so let me be brief and thank them for letting me join. I just want to mention a couple of things because i know that communities across the u. S. Are particularly, our cities and towns have been really wonderful partners for epa both in 1995ing how best the spend things like a state revolving funds effectively to look at ground fields redevelopment and to support that. Our fiscal year budget this year, the president s request has really been recognizing what a great partner you are and is looking in a variety of ways to advance that partnership with additional dollars. I wanted to point out a few things. Number one, the 42 of epa budget goes to state local communities describes. The president is looking to provide us additional funds to continue to Work Together and particularly on Climate Resilience so we can provide you expertise and tools that you need to address your changing weather patterns. The extreme weather events but also we know that climate is most significantly challenging on Water Infrastructure. So were dealing with the new challenge of Climate Change and the old challenge about what do we do with water and waste Water Infrastructure. What you all investigated in 40 or 50 years ago is needing repeal as well as the new challenges on the Drinking Water side. Were going to continue to work with you on integrated planning but were also, the president has requested a significant increase over last years request in the area of srf. Were looking at new ways of continuing to support water and waste Water Infrastructure not just in terms of helping with resilience and helping you look at how to do planning and Green Infrastructure but we announced the Water Infrastructure and Water Finance center. Thats a way to have one place to go to think about whether there are creative financing opportunities that will bring private sector dollars to the table. Build partnerships because we know that the money that we have in the Public Sector is not going to be able to get the job done that were seeing because theres 600 billion in infrastructure need out there over the next 20 years. We have to pump it up and find new ways to finance it. Were also moving forward this year to lay the platform for our center under wifia because thats an important opportunity to take advantage of creative financing that the transportation agencies have found effective and we want to do it as well. Were going to be building up that center as well. Hopefully well be creating our partnership and enhancing it and looking for every opportunity to understand what your needs are and to support that as effectively as we can, and i think ill stop there. Thank you. Well, thank you. First and foremost, i need to express my apologies from a former mayor and former nlc member anthony fox. 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