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Chief berry, thank you for that introduction, because it was brief, and thats what i like. At this point one way or another people know who i am. And let me also thank our outstanding mayor of the city of chicago, rahm emanuel for hosting us. I know that thousands of you from federal, state, county, local and tribal agencies have been working hard to share strategies and solutions to better serve and protect all of us. And we are profoundly grateful for you work. I do hope that youve gotten a little time to enjoy my hometown as well. Because there is fun to be had here. Somebody clapped. Even ...

Allowed in. In the course of the questions and answers, i hope we get to explain why the figure of 100,000 refugees to be admitted over the next year and how that speaks to the global need. Secondly, to fund that drive properly, including in the department of Homeland Security where we strongly support Effective Security screening and can speak to that. Thirdly, and something that has not had proper coverage, is the scope for expanding access through family reunification schemes for Syrian American communities who are in this country across the country and have grandparents, cousins, relatives...

To officer stacy. Because when the video of the encounter went viral, folks across the country began calling the Tarrant Police department asking how they could help too. And the woman later said shed been blessed with manna from heaven, all because of one officers kindness. He pushed my world in the right direction, the woman said, and i will never forget it. Thats america at its best. Thats some good police work. [ applause ] thats what so many of you represent. I thank you for the work you do. I thank you for your fellow officers. Lets keep pushing our world in the right direction towards f...

Someone they know they can trust in those areas. Id say thats both for christians and yazidis. They also arent seeking the same refugee protection because theyre outside of that. You mention trafficking. Not only is there an issue of trafficking of women but because of the vulnerability of the refugees, children are much more susceptible. The parents go out doing things, they leave children behind for someone to take care of and we find more cases children being abused, which is heartbreaking. Its one of those cases to get them out of these situations we need to make sure they have emergency s...

Mediterranean. There are 7. 6 million internally displaced syrians suffering and into need of humanitarian assistance. More families are forced to send their children to work or marry off their young daughters. It is hard to comprehend the millions of refugees on lebanon, jordan, and turkey. The number of refugees in lebanon would be equivalent to the United States receiving 88 million new refugees. Thats a shocking number for that country. Turkey has already spent 6 billion in direct assistance to refugees in its care. Thats a huge part of the turkish economy. At the same time, we in the west...