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Committee on Homeland Security will come to order. Committees meeting today to examine the most serious threats confronting our homeland. Before i recognize myself for an opening statement, i would like to take a moment to welcome the newest member of our committee, don bacon. Don served nearly 30 years in the air force and is experienced in cybersecurity and Airborne Reconnaissance will prove greatly beneficial to this committee. Thank you, sir, for being here. Thank you, chairman. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. I would like to thank each of the witnesses, acting secretary e...

The future of dreamers as Congress Considers a fix to the deferred action for childhood arrivals program. Then representative paul gosar discusses immigration policy and how it could impact a possible government shutdown. Host members of a congressional delegation from puerto rico plan to present credentials to the house and senate today in an attempt to be recognize, which would give them Voting Rights. It is reported to be a larger effort to have the territory be recognized as a state. This is the washington journal. You are watching a threehour program today. The president met with house an...

And the idea was the president letd have discretion to certain people stay here for a temporary period of time because of something in their country that makes it difficult to go back. This is been used for a number of different countries. It has been used with civil wars in africa, natural disasters in Central America to give people a chance tuesday. Host the program came under scrutiny this week, including with the issue with the el salvador ins el salvadorians. Guest it has been going on since 2001. The white house made the decision it was not temporary, it had gone too long and they would ...

This comes on the heels of other immigration news. In california, state attorney general Javier Becerra praised the decision by a federal judge in San Francisco to stop the Trump Administration from ending daca, the deferred action for childhood arrivals program. Becerra had sued the administration for ending daca. The program has helped about 800,000 undocumented people who had entered the u. S. As minors. Becerra also took aim at the department of Homeland Securitys decision to end temporary protected status for undocumented immigrants from el salvador, calling it, quote, backwards and reckl...

This comes on the heels of other immigration news. In california, state attorney general Javier Becerra praised the decision by a federal judge in San Francisco to stop the Trump Administration from ending daca, the deferred action for childhood arrivals program. Becerra had sued the administration for ending daca. The program has helped about 800,000 undocumented people who had entered the u. S. As minors. Becerra also took aim at the department of Homeland Securitys decision to end temporary protected status for undocumented immigrants from el salvador, calling it, quote, backwards and reckl...