let you all know that we are live-streaming this event on twitter at nico tweets as well as on the epc's main events page. with that, i will turn it over to chris ramon, who serves as the policy analyst for bpc's immigration project and is the brains behind their fantastic report. >> so i want to thank everybody for coming out today and thank our viewers who are watching this from home and their offices. and obviously i want to thank our apparents at neco a. i'm a policy analyst with the bipartisan policy centers immigration project, and i'm here to present our report today titled a call for clarity and compromise, the perspective of state and local officials in the national immigration debate. so, you know, this report really sought to find what state and local views have been on immigration issues, and so we're going to dive in today a little bit, you know, what we found in the conversations that we had in these roundtables. we're going to start off with the key takeaways before we dive in and talk about what the roundtables are and what we learned, and we'll end with a conclusion, jus