ms. arnson. >> the achievable goal. one would be to speed up the process by which children who might have legitimate cases for asylum or refugee status are heard so that waiting time in the hundreds of thousands of cases that are in the docket is rapidly gone through and to speed up the process without violating u.s. law and international law regarding the claims of people who potentially have requests. that's a very short term. the longer term of course is to contribute to a more stable and prosperous and safe central america and that is the long-term goal i think that has to be the focus of this committee would also an important objective of u.s. foreign policy. >> based on your answer what you're telling me is the long-term goal is probably not achievable in the short term and let me just ask you what is the speeding up of the process of adjudication? that is a goal to achieve why? want to speed up the adjudication process? >> to speed it up so that love does not exist and send a message exploited by traffickers to p

ms. arnson? >> the achievable goal. one would be to speed up the process by which children who might have legitimate cases for asylum or refugee status are heard so that that waiting time in the hundreds of thousands of cases that are in the docket is rapidly gone through and to speed up, you know, the process without violating u.s. law and international law regarding the claims of people who potentially have requests. that's the very short-term. the longer term, of course, is to contribute to a more stable and prosperous and safe central america, and that is the long-term goal, i think, that has to be the focus of this committee but also an important objective of u.s. foreign policy. >> based on your answer, what you're telling me is that long-term goals are probably not achievable in the short term. let me just ask you, what is the speeding up of the process of adjudication? that's a goal to achieve what? why do you want to speed up the adjudication process? >> to speed it up so that the backlog does not exist and sen