my name is doris misner. i'm a senior here at the policy institute where i direct our work on u.s. immigration policy programs and where we are very pleased this morning to be releasing a new report which we're calling deportation and discretion reviewing if record and options for change. now, this event this morning is in person for those in the room and also live-streamed. so we welcome both sets of all yepss. the report that we're going to be talking about is coming at an important moment in that there is, again, the possibility of an executive action on immigration, sometime towards the end of this year. and that executive action may well take into acount some changes in the guidelines that present presently are being used. this work offers the most detailed look yet at the record of removals and deportations from the department of homeland security since its inception. so what we're looking at today is data from 2003 through f.y. 2013. the work builds on a large body of work that the migration policy institute has developed over the years that have to do with various aspects o