given that our mayor and other local mayors sent a letter to secretary of paul lozano expressing their distress with this -- secretary napalitano expressing their distress with this. we are really hoping that the attention that we have given this is going to help us in 2013 and that we will not be hit again and hopefully our allocations will go back out. i wanted to update you on the system, the interoperable communications system. i talked about it before motorola got the funding. 1 of 7 areas in the country to receive this finding to start to build out this system. we have put together a regional joint powers agreement which the chief and myself sit on 4 san francisco. lots of good things happening. congress in february, you have probably heard this come up last new lead -- probably heard about this, passed new legislation. there will be a larger area of legislation. the problem is that it is transferring responsibility from the fcc over to and cia for developing this program. -- over to ntia for developing this program. the new board that congress establish will be set up in august

given that our mayor and other local mayors sent a letter to secretary of paul lozano expressing their distress with this -- secretary napalitano expressing their distress with this. we are really hoping that the attention that we have given this is going to help us in 2013 and that we will not be hit again and hopefully our allocations will go back out. i wanted to update you on the system, the interoperable communications system. i talked about

janet of paul lozano understands information. -- janet nepalitano, that is her top job.hen we have a macarthur award winner for civil-rights activism largely involving immigrants and hispanics. she understands these issues terribly well. i think she cares deeply about the fate of a lot of the undocumented immigrants and would like to see some way of making this more rational. the problem is back in 2006-2007 when there was a broad immigration building discussed in congress, it was one of the biggest things i have ever covered. there was an argument that the border was not secure. we're letting the border fall down. people are plowing across our borders. among people who have been pushing for a comprehensive immigration reform system, they said later after it failed that they ceded the argument when they probably should not have, because in fact border enforcement has consistently gotten better throughout the bush administration, and once obama took over, they really upped the ante. they started deporting anyone they could who had a criminal record and was illegal, they w