>> the unaccompanied minors? >> yes. >> if a unaccompanied minor is referred to us we will try to determine the age of the child because our services go up to age 21 and it's very important that we distinguish between a child that is under the age of 18 and what we call a non minor dependent between the ages of 18 and 21. we have a number of foster care placements that we would place a child in. while placing a child in foster care we are looking for relatives or extended family members to place the child with and we try to determine whether that child needed to stay here with family members and receive services and then connect them to services. >> what do they do while you're looking for relatives or foster care placement? >> so they would go to one of the foster homes and we would enroll them in school if they're under the age of 18. if they're over the age of 18 we have an independent living program that we would refer them to where they would begin working with them on a number of things trying to determine

i guess are they going to be interfacing directly with the unaccompanied minor students? are they working with the teachers? what is kind of their role going to look like? [inaudible] >> they're doing both. >> okay. >> both. >> how do you expect them to work with the city and connect them to other services whether it's housing or the of the services that you mentioned? >>i think what you heard today about developing resources that's going to be really key. this coordinator can be the conduit to make sure that the resources are provided for the children and their sponsors so they're aware of the type of services that the city is providing. >> okay. >> mr. chu. >> good afternoon committee members. i am director the community department with the mayor's offices of community development. for the legal service portion many of you know that the board of supervisors and the mayor recently allocated over $1 million per year over a two-year period to support legal services to represent both these unaccompanied children and their family members. that figure was based on an estimate

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again in this situation you have unaccompanied minors and it's not clear to me who would give consent on their behalf to share information across the health department, the school district, and legal service providers. >> are you looking at ms. wong to come up as well. i am curious -- >> i'm not sure -- [inaudible] >> i think it would be good to have the same youth teacher -- mental health counselor, houser able to talk to one another and share information, so it's going to really take a village to make sure these youth are successful and ifer we're not sharing information and is a lowed in identities then i am worried we're not going to get there. >> so i share your children and i have been digging around that question too, so i have been working with the federal government to try to get them to actually give us the names of these kids and the locations of where they're being placed because the one unique thing about the surge is they're coming through -- you know they're turning themselves over at the border or the majority at least, not all of them, and they are taken -- our health

>> meaning if they're unaccompanied going in? they would contact a social worker in the hospital and they would treat the hospital as they would any other child that is unaccompanied. they would assess risk and whether social services needed to be called in or a parent or a guardian to care for them. >> you mentioned this briefly and the youth also are able to access mental health services and counseling -- [inaudible] >> right. in terms of the child and youth system has instituted -- [speaking spanish] la raza and our clinic in terms of leads. in terms of instructing us making sure that the services are culturally and linguistally appropriate and remember some of the ln languages are not spanish and they're indigenous to guatemala as well so we have to make sure we have shows services available. >> as dph has seen are they coming from other countries as well in terms of behavioral health? >> in terms of behavioral health -- lonnie said this is a developing story. they're not coming into the clinic at a high point right now. you

as well or working in hose neighborhoods and if they see a young person or identify someone as unaccompanied undocumented youth do they reach out to them? how does that work? >> they're working in three areas of the city so district 6, along in the tenderloin, along mid-market corridor and up further and i guess upper market and then in d10 along the valley and bay view and we have a pilot project in the mission and 16th and mission bart station so they are -- as they see the population they're providing information, not just on doca or citizenship but healthy sf, 311, how to access -- how to apply for city id card, so a number of programs and services. >> so they're all trained how to do this and do they actively search out young people or wait for the young people to approach them? how does that interaction take place? >> they provide information on all of the city programs and services -- >> i am aware. >> dream sf fellows doing the specific outreach to the target population -- >> [inaudible] >> because many of the dream sf fellows were unaccompanied minors themselves. >> that's amazing t

on the vent migration of unaccompanied minors from central america. his comments came during an all-day conference on immigration policy held by the georgetown university law center. it's an hour and a half. >> okay, i think we're going to get started. welcome back from lunch. i know it was a little shorter perhaps than you like. but he had fascinating panels this morning. in addition to director rodriguez speaking, we started out really well, so the challenge for my panel will be to continue that. i know that they're very capable of doing that. to this panel we're going to focus in particular with the treatment of unaccompanied minors in the united states as well as the situation for them and their sending country both before they leave and if they are returned what sort of plans exist at least in one of the major sending countries. i just want to make -- say a couple words before i introduce our panelist, each of whom will talk for about 10, 15 minutes then we'll open it up to a full q&a. once again when we get to q&a, please km down to the micropho

june 10th, 2014, since the number of unaccompanied children -- since then in the number of unaccompaniedldren has declined steadily. the same thing is reflected on a monthly basis. next slide, please in may, 2014, 10,580 unaccompanied children crossed the southwest border. in june, 10,622 crossed the south border in july, 5,000 a hundred 1, august, 3,341, and september was 2,424. the monthly numbers are now the lowest they've been in almost two years. in terms of the year-end number, our original projection in january was 60,000 unaccompanied children, would cross the southwest border illegally in fy2014. during the summer we revised that projection upward to 90,000. the fact is, the year-end number is 68,434. not far off the original projection of 60,000. the decline in illegal migration by parents, who brought their children, followed a similar path. next slide, please. this year. the worst is owe for now. from -- it over from now. from the spike this summer and the high in illegal migration 15 years ago, the president and i are committed to building an even more secure border. and a s

unaccompanied kids got the most attention.ot of it, perhaps on the same numbers if not larger, were what we called family units, parents with kids, which is what you are asking me about. we have -- we had detention space for about 34,000 individuals. only 95 beds total for family units. only 95, unit capability out of 34,000 --we believe it is necessary to build more that capability in the case that we have another spike like we did last summer. 95 out of 34,000 is not acceptable. i want to build additional capabilities that can be converted from one use to the other. i personally have been to artesia. i was there when it first opened. every time i visit artesia or nogales or mcallen, i spend time talking to the migrants myself. the kids, the moms and dads, to understand why they made this journey. and i am certainly aware of the issues that council have hadissd with communications with their clients. folks to puted my in place a number of things to make the attorney-client relationship easier there. i certainly appreciate the

in the news we primarily talk about central american youth crossing the border unaccompanied with adults. do we know of other youth coming here in the same fashion? >> i haven't talked about it specifically with the office of refugee resettlement and we have been focused on this but that's a good question. >> okay. thank you. so following the presentation we do have ken epstein and max rosha from the department of public health and for the members of the public who are following it will be followed by a presentation by the human services agency and then we have sfusd and brian hsu from the mayor's office on housing and community development and civic engagement and affairs. i wanted to note that the director of cyf maria su will be available for questions during the presentation so thank you. >> thank you commissioners and supervisor for this hearing. i am representing barbara garcia and the department of public health. i am ken epstein and the director of children youth and families and have max, the deputy and as well as christine the director from family services and i want to start b

what we can do to ensure we're protecting and understanding everything that's happening to our unaccompanied minors and i just really want to appreciate all the efforts put into that because i have seen you guys come together time and time again under the leadership of lonnie kent from the mayor's office who has kind of got thrown into this in a way that she didn't expect it to kind of come through, and to gain the momentum it has and to see all of you come together the way you have has been really tremendous. and i think from the school district side just knowing that we're going to be receiving potentially 200-400 students all at once or in dribbles or how it was we were going to be accepting the students there was a part of me who was a little bit nervous but a part of me that was proud because we do serve so many undocumented students already and we don't categorize them and are you or are you not and you come into the system and served like anyone else so as a district we were prepared to help the new students that came in and i am comfortable with the services set up because there are

in may 201410580 unaccompanied children across the southwest border.in june, 10,620 to cross the south border and in july 5501 and august 3141 and september was 2024. the monthly numbers are now the lowest they have been in almost two years. in terms of the year-end numbers are original projections in january was 60,000 unaccompanied children across the southwest border illegally in fy2014. during the summer we revise that projection upward to 90,000. the fact is the year-end number is 68,434. not far off the original projection of 60,000. the decline in illegal migration by parents who brought their children followed a similar path. next slide please. though the worst is over for now from the spikes this summer and the high illegal migration 15 years ago the president and i are committed to building an even more secure border and a smart strategy to get there. much of the illegal migration is -- despite the migration we saw this summer could return. the poverty and violence that are the push factors in central america still exist. the economy in this

in september 24th, '00 unaccompanied minors crossed the border. homeland security credits the flow to increased border security and the urging of central american leaders to discourage trips north. rick perry, who dispatched 1,000 members to the border might disagree with the assessment. troops are on duty, and texas plans on keeping the national guard there until the federal government dispatches staffing for the border patrol >>> i'm jonathan martin in new orleans. public schools in louisiana are scrambling to educate unaccompanied children that crossed the border. 1400 have arrived. they are allowed to stay with family and go to school. public schools are required to provide a public education for all children regardless of education. it could cost the louisiana taxpayers more than $25 million, according to the immigration reform group fair. some school groups are having a tough time to find bilippingual -- bilingual teachers. some offering bonus s. >> i'm morgan radford. in new york city many have arrived living with family members and sponsor

it is file number 1 40986 and it is a hearing on educational and support services for unaccompanied and immigrant children. >> thank you, and this is a hearing request on presentations from sfusd and the department of public health and human, and the department of human services agency, and the department of family and children services division, regarding educational services and other support services being provided and increase the numbers of unaccompanied minors and immigrant children arriving in san francisco, and this item was heard on september 25th, no action was taken due to the lack of quorum and i do need to take a motion on this item. so i would like to take a motion to file and can we take that motion without opposition and we can do so. thank you. and madam clerk, can you call the second item? >> thank you, supervisor, it is file number 1 40962, and it is a hearing on the city's policies for planning for new student enrollment due to increased residential development. >> thank you. i sorry... as you know, this item was brought to us actually by the school district. and the

this is a chart of unaccompanied children entering the united states illegally. in 2012 when he legalized essentially tense of thousands of people here with the stroke of a pen -- this is opening the borders even more. the numbers have sky rocketed since 2012 with people pouring in here. this has got to stop before we talk about other parts of the problem. >> for fair play senator went over his time by 30. >> ok. just a few comments. immigration reform is not -- the problem is the shrill partisanship. it is not just raising the walls on the border. it is working together and coming together because we have shared and common values. and that's why we need sensible immigration reform and we need people back in washington who aren't going to just demagogue the issue but are actually going to try to solve the problem. >> all right. you'll point this first to senator risch. >> real quick. sorry, a couple quick followups for the senator and then if mr. mitchell can respond as well. on immigration you talked about securing the border more. any specific ideas? would it b

this is being done through the interagency working group on unaccompanied children. it's a project funded by the mcarthur foundation. and the idea is to come out with a framework so that people in these agencies can take the child's best interests into consideration when making decisions. it is not going to be required. nobody is going to sign this document certainly. but it will, when it's finished, be a document that everyone participated in drafting. and i just want to be clear about best interests. this does not mean that the decision-maker, the immigration judge or i.c.e., has to make a decision that is in the child's best interests. that judge can also consider safety to the community, national security. there may be a myriad of other factors that that judge can consider. but what it means is that judge has to look at what's in that child's best interests, that child's safety, and that it should be a very important factor, especially if we're going to be removing a child, separating them from family, from all they know. it should be a factor. so, okay. back to

and he blamed that on the unaccompanied minors crisis.at it frightened america and he needed time to reeducate folks about why they should support immigration reform again. do you agree with him? did you see people afraid because of what they were seeing at the border? >> i think the president made a profit out of my boss. he said in 2007, today's complacency will be tomorrow's captivity. yes, kids are captive at the border. parents are captive. they are being sent home. we need to reinvigorate the situation. it is time for someone to act. if it is the president, the house, just someone, please, do what you say you are going to do. [applause] >> what effect do you think the rest of the crisis of unaccompanied minors created? >> number one, this is not american crisis. 78,000 kids showing up at the border of the most powerful, strongest nation in the world, it's a crisis of central america. it's a logistical headache for us that we can take care of. 125,000 showed up and i don't remember the republicans saying, don't -- send them back and

in august, more than 3,000 unaccompanied minors were detained, the lowest numbers since february 2013cing on september 6th that executive action on immigration reform is off the table until after the election, suddenly it seems that images like these are gone from our collective radar. this is the image from brownsville, texas, that back in june captured the nation's attention and propelled the story into news program leads and onto newspaper front pages. the pictures show a refugee center with children, children traveling alone without resources, without anywhere to go, laying on makeshift cots under foil blankets. at a peak back in june, more than 10,000 unaccompanied minors were streaming across the border on a monthly basis coming mainly from honduras, guatemala and el salvad salvador. and then it seemed suddenly their stories were gone. we saw new headlines like, number of unaccompanied children crossing texas border dropped sharply in july. and the child migrant crisis seems to be over. gone were the front-page stories and the news page leads. not gone by any stretch, of course,

you laid out numbers to show how families and unaccompanied children from central america -- the number quibbling, what are -- quicking. why are we -- are dwindling. why are we are still building facilities? >> a lot of migration is seasonal, and so look at the pattern this past summer of adults, adults without children, it followed almost idly the migration patterns in prior yearsfé in terms of the numbers and the trends, and so a lot of the migration you saw and a lot of that spike you saw is definitely seasonal. but then there was a sharp dropoff, which may have been attributed to a lot of the aggressive efforts we put in place, the public messaging, and so we have got in my view, guard against the same thing happening again, and so we want to build additional capability that can be converted from one type of use to another on pretty short notice. and so i think there's some lessons learned from tom experience -- from that experience but we don't want to totally dismantle all the things weea1m in place this summer to deal with that because it could come backy' again. i watch the numb

they tell us we must care for the unaccompanied minors coming into our country. they tell us we must not, no, we cannot, send these young people home. they tell us we must borrow even more money from china to house and clothe and feed and inoculate and treat these strangers who broke into our home. well, i am a mother, i am a woman, i am a christian and i'm proud to say, i am an american. i have listened to these arguments and i checked them against my heart and my head. my experience and my values. and to these arguments i need the one word to respond. no. [ applause ] disagree? go to the american border and speak to the citizens with whom i have spoken. learn about the crime. local residents will tell you they have seen a flood of illegal residents pour into their city last two years. they will tell you how crime against persons and property has increased. sheriffs means and del rio tell us of residents along river who have had their homes robbed. everything from televisions to washing machines to copper wire. stolen from homes, put on floats -- put on rafts an

the unaccompanied minors crisis that happened this year.nt in his interviews, in explaining why one of the reasons or the maid reason why he delayed action until after the election that he lost the support of the american people. he blamed that on unaccompanied minors crisis that a fight into the america and he needs time to educate or reeducate why we would or should support immigration reform. did you see people afraid because of what they were seeing at the border? >> the president made of profit out of my boss he said in 2007 today's complacency is tomorrows captivity. exactly. parents are captive and we need to reeducate the situation. it is time for someone to act. please do and say what you are going to do. [applause] but the crisis with the unaccompanied minors? >> number one. this is not an american crisis. 70,000 kids showing of that the border of the most powerful and strong is nation in the world? it is a crisis of central america but a logistical headache for us that we can take care of. those of the goals of showed up but reme

nd remember, the children, these unaccompanied children, just to be very clear, they are not permitted under law to be in detention for any sort of extended period of time. there are a number of family units in the kids who are here with their parents who could be in some sort of secure setting, nd, of course, adults also are expected to be, unless they're paroled in some way in a secure setting. but those actual details are not details that we really run from c.i.s. those are really ice and customs and bored pear trolley, customs and border patrol in particular, so i would recommend directing that question to them. >> i think we're going to take two more questions here, but i actually wanted to interject one, not to follow up on julie, but to ask you, on implementation, if you can talk about the displacement of other resources. i know that citizenship is a major priority of yours as well, and if we're talking about a major executive action program covering, you know, millions of people, that obviously takes a lot of resources. it also takes huge amounts of coordination within d.h.s.,

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and he blamed that on the unaccompanied minors crisis. and it frightened america he needed time to reeducate folks about why they should support immigration reform again. do you agree with him? afraid see people because of what they were seeing at the border? president made a profit out of my boss. he said in 2007, today's complacency will be tomorrow's captivity. yes, kids are captive at the border. parents are captive. they are being sent home. we need to reinvigorate the situation. it is time for someone to act. if it is the president, the house, just someone, please, do what you say you are going to do. [applause] >> what effect do you think the the crisis of unaccompanied minors created? >> number one, this is not american crisis. 78,000 kids showing up at the border of the most powerful, strongest nation in the world, it's a crisis of central america. it's a logistical headache for us that we can take care of. 125,000 showed up and i don't remember the republicans saying, don't -- send them back and that we will not receive them. [a

it's a clear sign that the country is becoming more diverse in more places. >> the influx of unaccompaniedchildren this summer have ramifications far beyond the border states. our reporters in texas, louisiana and new york give us a sense of the impact. and we start with heidi jo in dallas. >> the influx of the children over the border since june, the total never reaching feared levels. in the summer, homeland security estimated the children could be as high as 90,000. as many as 10,00 10,000 minors a month were streaming over the boarder. in september, only 2400 crossed the border. they attributed it to increased execute. and u.s. urging central american leaders to discourage the trips north. rick perry, who dispatched 1,000 national guard to the border might disagree with the assess many. he plans to keep the national guard there until the federal government dispatches more staffing for the border control. heidi jo castro. dallas. >> i'm in new orleans. public schools are scrambling to educate the children who recently crossed the border. 1400 of them have crossed the border and federal

not to mention 90,000 unaccompanied children.e should come together to say enough is enough. >> what happens to the 12 million? >> let me answer the question. what i think we should do is focus on areas of bipartisan agreement. the first area is securing the border and stopping the problem of illegal immigration. the second area of bipartisan agreement is improving and streamlining legal immigration so that we remain a nation that doesn't just welcome, but celebrates legal immigration. i am the son of an immigrant i came legally from cuba 57 years ago and there is no stronger advocate of legal immigration than i am. if you actually want to pass a bill, you focus on areas of bipartisan agreement. they focused on the question you're asking, the most partisan and divisive elements. i believe their objective is not to pass a bill but to have what happened happen exactly as it did. to force a bad bill that they knew would never pass the house of representatives because they want to use it as a cudgel in 2014 and 2016. they didn't pass

. -- this is ama chart of unaccompanied children entering the u.s. illegally. in 2012 when he legalized essentially tens of thousands of people here with the stroke of a pen, this is opening the borders even more. the numbers have skyrocketed since 2012 with people pouring in here. wes is got to stop before talk about other parts of the problem. play, the senator went over his time. you have 30 seconds. shrillproblem is the partisanship. it's not just raising the walls on the border. it's working together and coming together because we have shared and common values and that is why we need sensible immigration reform, and we need people in washington who are not just going to demagogue the issue, but actually try to solve the problem. , -- and i >> aee couple of quick follow-ups for the senator and mr. mitchell can respond as well. on immigration, you talked about securing the border more. any specific ideas? would it be a wall? would it be more personnel for the border? also, what would your position be on amnesty? >> a two-part question. it's all of the above.

. >> even unaccompanied babies are still sometimes stranded on the spanish coast.ome refugees bring children because they hope if they are caught, the spanish authorities will be more lenient if a child is with them. often, the children are little more than ponds. some of them lose their lives. >> once, a child on an arriving boat fell in the water and drowned. we were able to recover the body, but none of the refugees on board reacted. it was a terrible humanitarian situation. a child falls in the sea and drowns, and nobody speaks up or claims it as their own. >> this is become a landing point for illegal immigrants seeking to enter the eu. the enclave borders on morocco. women and children usually try to enter by see, crossing the fences on the land border is too dangerous. david rodriguez fit all -- david rodriguez vidal knows the routes the refugees take and the human traffickers who prey on them. he used to work for the spanish secret service as an undercover agent and the fans of secret service traffickers in africa. he says children also play a role in organ

i'm sure you're proud of what new york city is doing also for unaccompanied children? >> yeah, we really came together in new york to respond to the child migrant issue. the city administration, we've formed an internal task force of mainly city agencies to figure out how we can best coordinate resources for the kids, specifically focused on things like educational and health resources. and so our city agencies are now actually located at the immigration court which, i think, in new york we have great immigration judges and they're really excited to have us there connecting the kids both to school enrollment as well as to child health class and other health benefits they may be eligible for. and they're running a series of community clinics connected to the schools where the children are sort of most concentrated in new york city. and then the city council along with two foundations and the robin hood foundation funded close to $2 million with universal representation for kids coming through the new york surge docket. so that's really exciting. i hope with response, it

we're on track for 100,000 unaccompanied children to come in this year. we have to stop this. it is all the above approach and we can do it. on amnesty, i am not going to vote for amnesty. i'm opposed to amnesty. >> moderator: mr. mitchell. mitchell: the unaccompanied minor problem at the border, i agree with pope francis, it is a humanitarian problem and i am not going to -- unfortunate when i hear people like the senator trying to demonize the children that are coming across the border. we need sensible immigration reform to address these issues, to address the humanitarian crisis with these unaccompanied minors. at the same time, in terms of what it comes down to, we need people in washington who are willing to address the issues. >> moderator: as far as amnesty goes, what is your position? mitchell: amnesty is a misleading label because when you're talking about a 18-year-old in pocatello who has lived here all of his or her life except for six months. we're not talking about amnesty, we're talking about a path to citizenship. so it is a misleading label. >> moderator: dr.

this is a chart of unaccompanied children entering the united states illegally. in 2012 when he legalized essentially tens of thousands of people here with the stroke of a pen -- this is opening the borders even more. the numbers have sky rocketed since 2012 with people pouring in here. this has got to stop before we talk about other parts of the problem. >> for fair play senator went over his time by 30. >> ok. just a few comments. immigration reform is not -- the problem is the shrill partisanship. it is not just raising the walls on the border. it is working together and coming together because we have shared and common values. and that's why we need sensible immigration reform and we need people back in washington who aren't going to just demagogue the issue but are actually going to try to solve the problem. >> all right. you'll point this first to senator risch. >> real quick. sorry, a couple quick followups for the senator and then if mr. mitchell can respond as well. on immigration you talked about securing the border more. any specific ideas? would it be

the number of unaccompanied minors they say it's dropped from the peak this summer. what is the reality in the court. >> you can see, for example, in new mexico the unaccompany the minors are getting kangaroo cords that take about two second to adjudicate their cases. their lawyers until recently were not even allowed to be on premises. the lawyers when they tried to visit their clients were not allowed to bring computers or phones into the facilities. and these kids were not getting any due process. they were not getting their cases fully reviewed. they were being held. the bonds being set very high. so these kids have no ability to present a case and their due process rights are being violated. >> i think to bring you back to the conversation we had at the beginning here. i'm wondering for the president of the united states says something and his own people don't carry it out. what can he do? it just seems like it's just so o odd. >> well, you know, what happens is he needs a clear policy on deportation. >> i think he has one. he says we're going prioritize among o

we had a reports on the services for unaccompanied immigrant children and then we had a discussion on the cities policy for new enrollment due to increased community development we've learned that san francisco's population has been growing by 10 thousands residents a year for for o the last 10 and in 9040 we will be adopting so for the now residents this is an ongoing discussion so okay are there any other reports from board members? yes commissioner haney i'm not sure i have a report and this is from personnel and labor >> oh, yeah. forgot that. >> (inaudible). >> is that okay and it's not agenda dis. >> standing committees right okay commissioner haney you're on. >> give me 5 votes (laughter) can i resubmit that (laughter) is it okay. >> yeah. >> okay. all right. we had a. >> i'm sorry, i waiting want a motion you need 5 votes (laughter) no do you want to read this okay so we had a meeting of the ad hoc labor committee that was our first meeting of the year i'm the chair of the committee and the meeting it feels like a long time ago but it was last time i've not left since then and

. >> woodruff: earlier this year, a record number of unaccompanied children from honduras, guatemala united states.ç sparking a crisis and political backlash on our southern border. as part of its response, the white house announced tens of millions of dollars in newç spending in those countries, aimed at stopping the flow of unaccompanied kids, and the crime driving them from home. newshour's p.j. tobia takes a look at those u.s. funded programs and the children they are supposed to be helping. >> reporter: in central america, this is the front line of the obama administration's fight to keep children from joining gangs or making the dangerous journey to the united states. it's the opening of a new community center in a violent el salvador an city controlled by a gang. 140 of these u.s. government-funded centers are spread between honduras, guatemala, and elç salvador. there are plans to double that number. they offer sports, skills training, and computer literacy. it's a response to the flood of children trying to make their way to the u.s. border. oneç of them is 10-year-old b

we've heard in many venues which is rather controversial to some people and that is the number of unaccompanied the united states, crossing the mexican border, many ending up here. how is that going to affect our economy, our communities, our schools here? i'm going to throw it out to one of you. >> let's begin by saying this is a human rights issue. being concerned about the economy and education, oh, those things are obviously important, but this is children. these are minors who have crossed a total number of tragedies from central america to the united states. so the issue then has to begin with a human rights violations that are going on, the support for these children and their families. quite frankly we have the resources with everything else to begin with the human being as an individual and i would say what we are addressing as a community is advocating for them first and foremost at all levels of policy. >> some people feel that perhaps we should send them back. what is the price of doing nothing? >> oh, no, we have to do something in the sense that they're here. so let's make sure th

$100,000 that david is talking about is money that was in the budget i budget it was not targeted for unaccompanied minors the same thing itself real solution to this country's was the solution i presented 2. one million it funded legal representation and because of that leadership city's utilization new york and california are following suit and it's one thing to talk about something but but to actually do it the record speaks for itself that's why their supporting my campaign. >> public transportation how did each of you get here and what's the position on charging for citizens. >> i drove today, i have a number of meetings for me public transportation is making sure there's a accountability in the system you've worked on public transportation for the last 6 years to make the system important reliable for citizens on the other hand, and i believe one of the things not just throw money at metropolitan but change that i'm proud of instead of focusing on increasing services we've worked to make assessable muni is to individuals my program allowed the middle-income and low income children to ride mun

thomas perez, house democratic caucus xavier becerra, and immigration attorney who represents unaccompanied immigrant children. watch all about meeting 15 eastern on3: c-span. on theay testimony secret service. two senior lawmakers on capitol hill on wednesday urged secret service director julia pearson to leave her job, saying they have lost confidence and trust in her ability to protect president barack obama. jason chaffetz of utah and elijah cummings an additional he called for piercings ousting. more aboutwill hear this of the news briefing at the white house coming up at 3:00 eastern on c-span. look for coverage of that on c-span two. at the white house the president meeting with the israeli prime minister benjamin jan -- netanyahu discussing a number of issues, including the ongoing palestinian conflict. here is a look. it is good to welcome the prime minister of israel. obvious no stranger to the white house. we meet at a challenging time. israel is obviously in a very turbulent neighborhood. this gets us an opportunity once again to reaffirm the unbreakable bond between the united