we can protect our children. we can protect my children. thank you. >> thank you, dr. jacks for your personal story and thank you dr. sawyer and dr. moore. we will go now to the people who have not had a chance to ask questions and begin with senator casey. >> thank you very much. we would like to thank the witnesses for bringing to this table and hearing room your experience, knowledge, significant time that you have dedicated your lives to on these issues. dr. jacks, we are a especially grateful for bringing your story. these issues are difficult enough, but ever more so when you have a loved one, in your case or daughter, is the subject of your own efforts. we are grateful for your bringing that to us. i am tempted to ask, but i would just refer to it, kind about why question and why the failure to vaccinate as becomes a significant. that may be the question that we are all asking. i guess maybe a better question to ask is what we can do to push back against it. we are doing that today and i see each of your testimonies have referred to that. i want to see some of t

. >> when it comes to children, it is a big deal. young children that we heard about, collecting blueberries, 3 and 5 years old, 7 years old and the rationale was, because their hands are so tender and small, that they would not crush the blueberries. >> what they're doing is noble and helping the family, but they need to break the cycle. >> if the public were more aware, i think they'd be outraged. >> this week on fault lines investigates children at work in agriculture, america's hidden harvest. it's saturday morning at mariana higareda's house. she's taking her daughter and granddaughter out to the fields to pick onions. since it's a weekend, it will be a full day of harvesting. >> mariana and her children follow the harvest across texas, into new mexico and colorado. they live in their home in laredo, texas, for only part of the year. onions have to be harvested by hand. workers clip off the roots and green tops, and collect them into burlap bags to cure in the field. >> the workers earn between 80 cents to $1.75 per bag of onion

children and has done so every year since 2006. sending them to four-year colleges. that alone is worth applause. [applause] dr. parry is a regular education contributor for msnbc. upa best-selling author. as soon as you hear him talk you will see him be one of the most passionate voices for education reform. next to him is nina rees. the president and ceo of the national alliance for public charter schools. she has over 20 years expense in washington dc. most recently as the senior vice president for strategic initiatives for an amazing company helping kids. she is also served as the deputy secretary for innovation at the u.s. department of education. they never had an secretary for innovation and change before. nina was the first. that was right after she was dick cheney's assistant director for policy. nina has a huge history with d.c. and education. finally, to her right is mashea ashton who is ceo for the new or charter school fund. previously, she served as the executive director director for the new york program. executive d

foreign language ] >> not a single keepsake of their children was left behind. >> these are our children that we lost in the tsunami. >> these photos came from relatives and friends. >> only recently have i been able to bring myself to look at the photos. for a long time i was too afraid. >> their older son was a university student. their daughter had just graduated from high school. and their younger son was in his second year of junior high school. >> i don't feel any anger. i just feel regret. i asked my children if they wanted to go to the stall with me but they said it's sunday so we want to watch tv. they stayed home. at the shop i felt a terrible shaking. a stream of muddy water rushed in. i prayed for my children to be alive. i tried to get home but people were screaming nothing is left. in the end, all i could do was flee. >> just remembering makes me feel so distressed. our children were so obedient and caring and they were on the cusp of starting their own adult lives. many times i prayed gratefully to god for giving us such wonderful children. they would care for us in our ol

they are children they are vulnerable. so my take would be, yes, these are refugees. >> as long as the causes down there in central america are the same and they are the same and i don't see any public policy addressing those, and the us doesn't have the important meaningful conversation about how it is going to treat the immigration problem, the conditions are there the road is open. >> these people have decided that today they will be arrested >> i know that i'm being surveilled >> people are not getting the care that they need >> this is a crime against humanity >> hands up! >> don't shoot! >> hands up! >> don't shoot! >> what do we want? justice! >> when do we want it? >> now! >> they are running towards base... >>...explosions going off we're not quite sure... >> fault lines al jazeera america's award winning, investigative series... on al jazeera america >> it's legal. >> we have half a million dollar backlog on any given day. >> it's lucrative. >> we grew from 700,000 in 2012 to nine.5 million in 2014. >> and it cou

but there's also the adhd, all that alphabet that we label children with, and the medications that children are put on. and i have had many children who are psychotic, who have severe mental health issues. and if we don't address these issues when they're small and young and able to get them under control so they can still learn, then we know what's going to happen to them when they're adults. >> hinojosa: but, so how... okay, you talk about some children who end up in your courtroom who are psychotic. but what's a typical kid... i mean, you're in that court... >> typical child that comes in our court comes one time. see, when we read newspapers and we hear about our children, we think that we have monsters on our hand, and we don't. most of our children got in a fight someplace, or got mad at a police officer for speaking to them in the wrong way. >> hinojosa: and the kid responded to the police officer? >> yeah, or, you know, just stupid things that most of us might have done as young people. see, if i were growing up now, first off i would have been put on medication, because i was disru

we have children who cannot be immunized. week. >> we have to do our best. >> we are at a point where they are right around the 91, 92% mark. are you worried that we'll have, at some point in the near problem? >> i'm worried about that, because it doesn't take much for the viruses to get a foothold. it doesn't sound that strong. maybe 16%. that's all the opportunity some germs need to start trouble, to start, to cause problems for people that never had the choice about whether they wanted the disease this their community. >> have you seen an active case of measles. >> i have not personally and i hope i do not see one. >> that is reflective in itself. you are not 22. you are a fully fledged professional adult and have never seen measles. >> my md is a little over 10 years old. the only way i have known about it is people who have trained me. i've been trained by physicians that lived through the '30s, and '40s, they were the first responders to the outbreaks in their communities. to listen to their stories, experiences, to see

including traumatized children families trying to keep their children safe and we have so far served approximately 200 individuals. >> why we're asking for the facility to become a 5151 designated facility is because and children are often sent to psyche emergency services or to hospital emergency rooms you can imagine how difficult this is for children and their families to be sitting there while already in a crisis situation and often not equipped to deal with crisis where that is a great facility it's really hard for children and families to be in an adult setting. we're hoping to relief the san francisco police department by being a facility that will accept children efficiently and safely and hoping to reduce unnecessary hospitalizations and we're hoping that by keeping children to san francisco they will be closer to their current mental health provide ers, schools and support systems. how will this improve the care for children. like i mentioned when children are in psychiatric crisis they need to go to psyche emergency or er's and most of our youth are hospitalized out of cou

we need to look at the children who regressed.need to look at the reports the people -- just last year in 2014, a child was compensated $500,000 because she died after getting the mmr. >> so what should happen with the crisis of measles outbreak right now in this country? are you opposed to children getting the mmr vaccine? >> i am pro-choice. i'm not anti-vaccine. i am pro-choice. i think parents have to make informed choices. that is the standard of ethical medicine. what should happen right now? see if you need a measles vaccine. i think the industry should make measles, mumps, rubella available separately. they should get with a precisely need. i think people with young children who are too young to be vaccinated because the risks of injury are so great, they probably should go to places -- shouldn't go to places like disneyland. we don't have herd admitted to do for measles or any of these childhood -- >> explain what you mean. >> herd immunity means everybody, because most people vaccinated, it is not possible that people --

these are pictures of her children in the room, packed with six beds. >> for the young children it's harder. there's a bunch of children running around, hollering and screaming. if you didn't have to do it, i would wish it on my worst enemy. >> reporter: in one of the nation's wealthiest cities, 30% of children live below the poverty line. >> i think we had an explosion in family homelessness, and the major issue is the economy. if poor, poor families are no city. >> reporter: much of that is due to a lack of affordable housing. instruction of luxury units with higher rents is pushing thousands of people into the shelters and overflow hotels. small and her children are among them. she lives in a city paid-for hotel with her family. >> you have new buyers coming in, fixing up your great-grandmother's home. it's too expensive for you to move in. the economy and prices to go up - where i could get a place for $500. that neighbourhood is $4,000. >> reporter: multiple d.c. mayors vowed to end homelessness. after relisha disappeared, former mayor promised to find new homes for 500 shelter

with color are chine ease children, 3 times as likely as white children to have untreated decay. african american and hispanic twice as likely to have untreated decay. showing that childrens oral health is a primary part of overall health and well being which requires timely access to preventative is sirfbss and timely treatment. the kids that are 3 times as likely have to have just as much access as their counter parts in the city. illustrated the data firther. low income children and children with color wait times at dental clinics that accept med cal or medicaid can be as high as 2 to 3 months including nigh clinic in the mission neighborhood. we are building a wait list. these children who will be seen in the 2-3 months if their parents are persistent enough to be calling us and staying on the phone and getting their kids seen. as a result in san francisco less than half dent cal children 0-20 see a dentist in the past year. it is [inaudible] poverty is associated with greatest risk in the unified school districts in the city. while dbtal decay is decreasing in the city, it i

nail their children -- vaccinate their children. this must be confronted if we are going to prevent further outbreaks like the one we're currently experiencing. thank you for allowing me to testify, and i look forward to your questions. >> thank you, dr. sawyer. dr. jacks. >> senator alexander senator murray esteemed members of congress, my name is tim jacks, i'm a board-certified pediatrician, and i'm on the front line of this vaccination issue. i daily recommend vaccinations to my patients and address concerns and questions they have regarding immunizations. lately, i've also been addressing many questions over the ongoing measles outbreak. but i am not here today as a medical professional. i'm here today as a father. three weeks ago my infant son and daughter, madeleine -- who is battling leukemia -- were exposed to measles. since her diagnoses with leukemia six months ago, our home life has revolved around my daughter maggie's care. she's been admitted to the hospital six times and spent nearly a month there. she's on a very reg

i walked in the shoes of the children. since i have walked in the shoes of the children. i'm equipment to lead a school. >> if you look at the way we staff school, how we fill them up with children. decide where they are going to do, what we will pay for we are probably the only country in the world that funds rich kids schools better than poor kids schools, when we know that poor kids have the needs that you describe. is there anyone that you can dense? >> that's all i can do is just do my job. just prove that children can achieve at high levels when we take away the barriers that gives them access to that. we have to believe in children, we can't determine who they are based upon circumstances. i can only do it by walking the walk and talking the talk. and so when i'm at school, and we are doing a great job with the children, our scores show that. someone takes notice and they come and say what are you doing at the school. and we can tell our story. we have the same story that many schools have in the country. >> kent maguire, you were going to say. >> ingrid is doing w

they are children they are vulnerable. so my take would be, yes, these are refugees. >> as long as the causes down there in central america are the same and they are the same and i don't see any public policy addressing those, and the us doesn't have the important meaningful conversation about how it is going to treat the immigration problem, the conditions are there the road is open. >> monday. >> this is the place where 43 students were handed over to criminal organizations. >> a crime that shocked the world. >> the military is about a mile away. they say that they didn't hear anything. >> where are mexico's missing students? >> kidnappings keep going up human security is collapsing. >> "faultlines". al jazeera america's hard-hitting... >> today they will be arrested. >> ground-breaking... >> they're firing canisters of gas at us. >> award-winning investigative documentary series. "mexico's disappeared". monday, 10:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america. this is techknow, a show about innovasions that can change lives. .

we can protect our children. we can protect my children. thank you. >> thank you, dr. jacks for your personal story and thank you dr. sawyer and dr. moore. i will go to the people who have not had a chance to ask questions and begin with senator casey. >> thank you very much. we would like to thank the witnesses for bringing to this table and hearing room your experience, knowledge, significant time that you have dedicated your lives to on these issues. dr. jacks, we are especially grateful for bringing your story. especially when you have a loved one, in your case your daughter, is the subject of your own efforts. we are grateful for you bringing that to us. i am tempted to ask, but i would just refer to it, about the why question and why the failure to vaccinate has become significant? that may be the question that we are all asking. i guess maybe a better question to ask is, what we can do to push back against it? we are doing that today and i see each of your testimonies have referred to that. i want to see some of the ground-level work that has to get done day in

they are children they are vulnerable. so my take would be, yes, these are refugees. >> as long as the causes down there in central america are the same and they are the same and i don't see any public policy addressing those, and the us doesn't have the important meaningful conversation about how it is going to treat the immigration problem, the conditions are there the road is open. >> an america tonight investigation >> somebody could come in and take our home away from us >> it was a law that helped condo developments stay afloat >> we would have to sell and have to leave our unit >> now, this law is being used to take peoples homes >> there's nobody helping us... >> honest people, losing hope... >> i didn't fight vietnam so that someone could take my property away from me >> hard sell an america tonight investigation only on al jazeera america the deadly civil war in syria must be told. couldstopped. could it be time to come to political solutions i'm talking to an official at the time united nations who tried to help

food to the wife of his other brother, who had three children. liu says his brother later died of his injuries. residents here denounce the system as cruel and unfair. >> "for those who don't have much money, it is hard for them to have a second or third child, for the fine will make them return to poverty. for the rich there is no restriction on the number of the children they can have: the birth of four or even five children is also permitted. ...what they do is not to control the number of population but to squeeze money from people into their own pockets." back in guangdong, zhou toasts his brother's birthday with friends. but thoughts of what has happened to his missing daughter continue to haunt him. zhou says he will keep looking for her, even if that trail leads him to find her happily adopted by another family, in another country. >> "i would be overjoyed if i could see her. but i would let her to decide whether to stay there or not, because, after all, she has a complete adoptive family there. as her father, i will be much satisfied ver

, unaccompanied children. sexual abuse, physical abuse just a whole series of things that are just not in keeping with who we are as a country. i'd like to know what has been done by your agency or any of the agencies here to investigate these allegations and to address them. >> thank you, chairman castro. in the first half of fiscal -- first, my office takes these complaints very seriously and we've worked closely through the years with regular meetings with nongovernment organizations in order to make sure we're hearing all of the complaints that are out there that we can gather. we visit detention facilities on a regular basis. i've made a priority of going to family detention facilities as they are beg brought online. my staff will be there next week to review the facility and see how the conditions of confinement are there. when we receive a complaint from an organization like nijc, ms. mccarthy or from other organizations we follow up with the person who has sent the complaint, we ask any questions. we o

female unaccompanied children and children under 14 years of age. in previous years approximately 25% of the population was female while in fiscal year 2014 females made one-third of the population. also fiscal year 2013 approximately 27% of the population was under 14 while in previous years percentage range from 17 to 24%. orr has a network of care provider facilities across u.s. that provide various levels of care, homes providers, residential treatment, staff care providers, which are kind of a medium care facilities, transitional foster care and long-term foster care. a very small number of children placed in secure facilities if they have committed dangerous crimes or pose a danger to themselves or others. vast majority of children are housed in our shelter facilities. all permanent care providers are state licensed facilities licensed to provide residential services to minors. this means that are state licensing and orr. state licensing cover anything from reporting sexual abuse to providing nutritious meals and snacks, the number of square f

children. they need good information in real science. families facing these challenges they need to have answers and we should take a look on a bipartisan basis but i want to look at immigrant children and their vaccination and this can get controversial but what are the outreach efforts and how do we deal with this? 60,000 children came to america last year, many of them are in their and hopefully they are in sunshine, going to schools and so on. as cdc an effort with states with high rates of new immigrants both legal and not be aware of the immunization of children are addressed because there is this attitude they shouldn't be in schools or get the public health infrastructure. my home town of america central american kids are going to school side-by-side with gentry kids. so how do we ensure the needs of those children are addressed and therefore the needs of american children to being protected are also addressed? >> they don't respect borders and it is important for individuals to be vacc

measles can cause life-threatening cup locations in children. -- complications in children. eyewitnesses will talk about what is causing this outbreak and why some parents are choosing not to vaccinate their children. measles is only one example. this hearing which was planned before the measles outbreak reminds us of the importance of vaccines. an analysis of human's asian rates across 13 states -- immunization rates across 13 states -- small private academies in new york city to large public elementary schools outside of boston and native american reservation schools in idaho where vaccination rates have dropped -- sometimes under 50%. california is one of the 20 states that allows parents to claim personal belief exemptions. some areas of los angeles, 60% of parents have filed a personal belief exemption and those elementary schools vaccination rates are as low as those in chad or south sudan. the purpose of this hearing is to examine what is standing between healthy children and deadly diseases. it ought to be vaccinations but too many parents are turning away from sound

speaker their children. to protect their children. they need good information, they need real science, and for families facing these challenges, they need to have answers. and it's another area i think we should take a look at on a bipartisan basis. but i want to the shift gears to immigrant children and their vaccinations. and i know this can get controversial. but what are the outreach efforts, and how do we deal with this? because, for example 60,000 children came to america last year. many of them are in maryland. and, hopefully they're in the sunshine going to schools and so on. but are you -- has cdc in effort with states where there's high rates of new immigrants both legal and illegal, where the immunizations of the children are addressed because there's this whole attitude they shouldn't be in our school they shouldn't get our public health infrastructure, and this is exactly what we're talking about. in my own hometown of america central american kids are going to school side by side with the gentry kids. is so how do we ins

we don't believe in hurting children.where it came from, but i decided that probably this was my only chance and the only chance for my children. so i stood up. i said to him, my children are here, they're alive, will you let them go. and he said, yes, but you'll have to stay. the children can go, but you'll have to stay. and so i started trying to get my children to stand up. >> i was expecting him to shoot them. then he asked, who's muslim? then my friend's brother, he stood up and he said, i'm muslim. and he said, you killed my mother and my sister and i loved them very much and they said, we're very sorry, please forgive us. >> i started walking with my children, you know, kind of ignoring the fact that he said that i would have to stay. then he said, can you take the boy with you. and i asked the terrorist, i said, there's also another girl here who's alive and can i take her too? and he sort of looked at her and didn't look too pleased, but he said okay. >> i was thinking, they're acting so nice, they're the people

to detaining mothers and children here in the united states is not getting back to the children in guatemala and those mothers in guatemala to say i'm not going to make that flight because i'm going to die here or i'm going to be detained there. it's just not a question. >> have the numbers of people coming across the border mothers and children or children unaccompanied, have they declined as of late or are they still on the increase. >> they have declined, but i think there's a number of reasons for that. i don't have any studies or concrete research on that but one, i know there's a lot more interdictions in mexico. so that the children and families who travelled from guatemala and honduras have been stopped in mexico and there's a lot higher detention and deportation of those individuals in mexico. now, it seems that that's shifting a little bit just from the numbers we've been seeing. also i think the other issue is just this time of year. it's more dangerous for people to travel. >> uh-huh. >> so what everyone is thinking is what are we going to see in the spring and summer? so maybe d

i want to be able to offer my children, and the children of south carolina, and the children of thision choices. real choices in their education. not every child is the same. every child learns differently. when we allow choices, what we give parents choices, we give them freedom. through freedom, we have excellent. we will build upon that and maintain our explanation. >> thank you, senator. [applause] senator scott, i've heard you talk occasionally about how school ju choice became a passion of yours. with all the students of the road today, i thought would be interesting if you wanted to share that part of your biography. >> certainly. first, i know representative mcmorris rodgers have to leave early. >> i'm here until 10:30 a.m. >> awesome. i grew up in poverty. my mother raised us herself. she did all that she could, yet i was not doing that well. i went to four different elementary schools. as some of you know, when you live in poverty, the chances are that you have to move. when you are moving so often your changing schools. for me, down the two years were about hopping from sc

american federation for children. and the founder and participating founder of the modern choice movement in the united states of america, the late john walter. we should always keep him in mind. and also the work of the alliance for school choice and the freeman foundation. i would like to thank his leadership and also the membership of the men and women who do the work and is the wind beneath the winds of this great organization. to you also, plow on. 50 years ago, thousands marched across the bridge in selma alabama, in a determined effort, a determined quest for freedom. a few days ago, over 2,500 school support providers marched for freedom of school choice. this march was led by two american heroes. first, that great warrior for children, and dominos civil rights leader dr. howard fuller. and second, an american federation for children heroic combatant who is present with us today, kevin chavous. [applause] >> his great 1920 book, the outline of history, a.c. wells the distinguished author futurist, essayist and

mostly low income families mostly children of color, graduates 100% of its children and has done so every year since 2006 sending them to four-year colleges. that is worth -- dr. perry is a regular contributor for cnn and msnbc. a best-selling author. a tv host and as soon as you will hear him talk you will see him be one of the most passionate voices for education reform and for real change in communities around the country. next to dr. perry is nina reece, who i've had the honor of knowing for almost 20 years now. she is the president and ceo of the national line of public charter schools. she has over 20 years experience in d.c. most recently is the senior vice president for strategic niche initiatives for knowledge universe. she has also served as the first assistant deppsy secretary for innovation at the department of education. they never had a secretary for innovation to change before. and nina was the first. that was of course right after she was vice president of dick cheney's deputy assistant policy director for domestic policy so she has a huge history and finally to her right