in geogroup facilities. he's a voice for the formerly incarcerated, for immigrants and other marginized populations. i support his reappointment to the reentry council, and i encourage you to do the same. thank you. >> supervisor safai: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors, and thank you again for the -- this opportunity. my name is allen sampson. i'm the development director over at hospitality house, and i have actually prepared a one minute and 52 second speech about jose's accomplishments, but after hearing jose speak, you can see that it's very important to speak from the heart, and reminded me why it was important to wade through a long list of muni points to get to this point. i can talk about jose's accomplishments at hospitality house, to working his way to becoming a shelter manager. i can talk about how he inspired the shelter residents, how he built a rooftop garden, how he organized the immigrants during the time when all the fear of i.c.e. from the buffoons of washington came

and if you look at the stocks for geogroup, for core civic, they have gone up 20%, 16% since april, whichise, surprise, someone's going to make a lot of money on this policy. i cannot believe -- june was the executive order -- the judge's order to give the children back. 416 children remain separated. 14 still separated kids are under 5 years old. little kids who need their parents. the number of parents no longer in the u.s. 304 parents already deported and the number of parents who didn't know they did it but waived their right to get their kids back, 109. how, how, how and what is -- >> that's a bad situation. i just got back from guatemala this week talking to families. they signed things they had no idea they were signing, giving up their rights. it's bad. now they're faced with this unbelievable choice. are they going to keep their children in the u.s. to pursue asylum or have their children come back and have their children give up asylum rights? the parents we spoke with there are just ago nizing because if they bring their children back, the children may be killed. on the other h