Lots of hey malika. Lots of beautiful familiar faces. Lots of beautiful new faces. Welcome, everybody. Were just super excited. This is our monthly town hall so were really excited and of course, were on track. We havent skipped a single month so weve kept up with our promise the beginning of our term, one a month. This is our 9th town hall and many communities weve participated. In. Before we get started acknowledge everyone our staff thats worked so hard putting this together. Like to acknowledge them. Michelle, mabel, mary belle, daniel, noreen. There we go. And marcus, sorry, marcus is live streaming. Sorry, im forgetting everything. Okay. And we have Translation Services here today. So we have our American Sign Language interpreter here for anybody that needs it we also have the poly translation has not arrived. If you need it, feel free to raise your hand and our staff can make sure that you get the Translation Services available. That being said, hello, everyone. Hi. Hi. Good ev
Effective how we ultimately classified . At this point if the questions on there, at this point was to be classified openly as white, correct . That depends what omb decides. Thats something we are waiting. A good question. One of the standards that the office of management and budget is contemplating right now is whether mena should be a new minimum category. So they are going to make the decision whether that is the case or not. Right now the Census Bureau classifies mena under white and thats how we are proceeding forward until were told otherwise. We are going to move on to the other speakers and then well opened it up for a discussion as to before i know the pdc has been working on this issue literally since were founded about 37, 40 some years ago and i got involved when he came on board but i can tell you these guys test everything to death. They literally test where they put commas, so you may put this is a slow, arduous process, and it is, but as i say, well get there. Next i
Convention convenes again and cleveland. Donald trumps son eric will speak. Vice president ial nominee mike pence will speak. An unexpected appearance by trump himself. Night we heard from two of the trump children, tiffany and donald junior. Was a strong finish to an otherwise rocky day. Consumed by a headlines related to Melania Trumps monday night speech. The officials began implausibly assisting insisting that her speech involved no plagiarism whatsoever, the Trump Campaign reverse course. Meredith mciver accepted responsibility for the address. She said she had offered her resignation but that offer had been rejected by the trumps. Hes notnald himself, shying away from this controversy anymore. The good news is the lobbys speech got more publicity than any other speech and history of politics. Especially if you believe that all press is good press. The firstre seeing real signs of tension between protesters and the police here in cleveland. This was the scene in cleveland just a f
Groups, several different scenarios and we control for different periods of u. S. Residency, how long do people would people have to have been here in order to qualify. So theres about 3. 6 million unauthorized immigrants who dont qualify for daca who fall into one of these parent categories and about 1. 5 million spouses who dont qualify for daca, unauthorized immigrants who are spouses of citizens or bprs. Those categories overlap so theres about 4. 2 Million People who are either a spouse or parent. The numbers go down pretty substantially when you start adding on long residency requirements. So if youre only extending the program to people who have been here 5 or 10 or 15 years. So a few quick comments about this approach. You know, here again longtime residents with u. S. Based families have important equities that are generally recognized by our immigration system so we can certainly make humanitarian and normative arguments about why people like this should have an opportunity t
Historian john, keying writes, the Second World War is the second largest event in human history. It killed 50 million human beings and left hundreds of millions of others wounded in mind and body and materially devastated. This largest single event affected life here in abilene as well as in communities around the world and where our panelists were during the war. I will begin our introductions with our abilene resident. Margin olson. She spent part of the war in exas and oklahoma as she fored her husband from post to pust. Next on our panel, doris snyder. She spent part of the war in akron, ohio. Not exactly rosie the riveter, but some type of war work. She is the mother of our museum curator, william snyder. We have made this panel into a Family Affair as you will see in a moment. Skipping down to the end of the table pause this is the way i rangered my remarks, bob went to oklahoma a m, now Oklahoma State university, where he studied journalism. Bob while he was there met press la,