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Tell your Smart Speaker play cspan radio. Cspan is your unfiltered view of government. Full funding provided by these Television Companies and more. Including midco. Midco. Supports cspan as a Public Service along with these other Television Providers giving you a frontrow seat to democracy. Joined and advocates to give testimony on the role of Migrant Workers in u. S. Farming and food production. This meeting will come to order. Last week the members of the committee traveled home for memorial day. It was an opportunity to learn more about constituent concerns. Everywhere i traveled i heard t...

But when you think of d. C. , you mostly think of dead white guys, am i right . Like washington, jefferson, lincoln. Well, guess what. Latinos have been here every step of the way. [upbeat latintinged music] in fact, Latinx Heroes Have fought in every war for the United States for centuries. This goes all the way back to the revolutionary war. American forces got major financial contributions from cuba, and they also got help from the spanish forces led by A Young Venezuelan commander named francisco de miranda. And then during the civil war, more than 20,000 hispanics served. Almost half of t...

More than 20,000 hispanics served. Almost half of them were mexicanamerican, and that was only 13 years after the mexicanamerican war. Now wheres the monument for that . Huh . Huh . Huh . Now, today, nearly 20 of the u. S. Population is latin, and our numbers are growing. Our voting power is growing too, and about one in ten votes are being cast by latinos, and yet we still make up less than 2 of our elected officials, but the good news is, we do have some prominent figures, like alexandria ocasiocortez, veronica escobar, Ritchie Torres, and alex padilla. And theyre in good company, because la...

Are joined by daniel stein and best president of the federation for American Immigration reform, and ben johnson, american lawyers association. Before we get to your hopes and predictions, what do you think was the most Important Development in 2017 when it came to the issue of immigration in the country . Guest it has been the emergence of the dreamers and the issue of what do we do with the 1. 5 million young kids who have grown up in the United States. The fact that they have helped to put a face on this issue and to really bring out some of the truths about immigration and who we are talki...

Where elders are trying to preserve their culture and the dying language heard from the mountaintops. Whistling was used widely used until the day the telephone arrived. That was in 1965. Around the same time most young people left the village to study or find work. Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff its been widel...