the first round will be this thirty minutes i have open ended questions that i got from the streets of princeton new jersey hopefully they will touch on topics such as doctor temporary protection status family provides on direct service as well as advocacy we have four or program areas one is the mercer county area community id card we also offer adult education which is english as a second language classes computer classes citizenship classes spanish literacy and soon spanish that we also have a huge mentoring program called who do know which mentors first and second generation immigrant youths in high school it's a college prep and college access program and our last four area is directly will myth or misconceptions concerning immigration today and some of the fundamental issues are missed why do you think many americans still believe them so we'll start with the first  access legal status it's a myth there is no particular line that you get into anyone attacks us or adjust your legal status there are very limited number of pathways through which you can do that once you've already mentioned united states and there are even smaller quantity of ways that you can do nat from outside of the united states and so just the overall concept that people are just not getting in line to do the right thing that they just don't want to just a status is a really unfortunate misconception because by and large most immigrants would actually you know super be willing to adjust their status if they had the opportunity to do so but unfortunately our immigration policies are ok and continue to narrow in the ways in which people that people think that the document didn't know or overwrites immigrants arrive in this country with the intent of breaking the law the vast majority are absolutely not interested in very in the law one of the momentarily and then u s citizens born in this country or sent back to interest want to model this is not a rare situation i have not selected the most tragic story but and i find such behavior sinful the that's why people coming to this country seek a better opportunity and a way forward want to be faithful and loving members of our communities and to hear the president hatred towards outsiders as a way to count my support and to make people it who are already in the country believe that what they have achieved is not what risk of being stolen taxes it's a sign of dignity desperately wants to regularize their situation and we could easily be fix immigration laws it's not as complicated as we're made to believe  fix immigration in particular and still languishing the dream and there was originally it exists since two thousand and one with respect to the it would be a big improvement because as we later as the kinds of stories that we see people who have no access to really effective public transportation in yet have to  that we are experiencing that alone can be sent the risk for immigrants if what you think is the thing that is one final thing i would say yes to driver's licenses for residents it's not a perfect solution but it's a you tested drivers and in addition it would also obviously make it easier for families to do the daily things that we take for granted going to school going to place of employment going to make groceries all of those very simple things that are part of our daily lives we do not have to rely on public transportation for the most of us or carpooling or other methods and so there's a lot of information that you can get about this and let's try be jersey dot com we're a part of this state campaign as members of the new jersey  what it appeals to move tional lead to people who have not slowed into the situation really want to see external threats in immigrants one of the reasons things that really bothers me about this situation is that all these general jeff sessions giving a thirty day window for new applications meaning individuals who had just been getting close to the sixteen year of age admission requirements and so if you turn sixteen in anywhere in the next thirty days you have the  then judge pays out of texas another federal district heard a different lawsuit that was pending that was brought by several state attorney generals including texas and he heard that case odyssey eight and responsible for turning down and cancelling the progression of the docket program which would have covered the parents of u s citizens or children at the time that it was introduced there were about three to have million adults that were eligible to apply for the work welcoming of students regardless of their background you know whether social racial status whatever it is and so there are these students and they're welcoming their parents and their families and so i don't we were closely with travel schools and parents and public schools to make sure is a very simple milliken dream is all of us getting people an opportunity to accumulate money or a market economy and education everytime that this country has invested and the only logical response for me is that roots is to simply sit at their feet and see each teach me how to come across this border teach me honey left your family friends fearing for your lives  stands for one of the greatest threads is not about immigrants but about how we are treating immigrants when he saw me coming to war and national identity the legacy or history and what we could do with those future to attention to a frustration you're screwing are coming from very tiny cultures in central america and they are coming mostly escaping almost intolerable circumstances the whole country  united states the demographic composition of the concert with virtually not change so that's what i mean when i say that this whole lean is filled with exaggerations of politically motivated  different kinds of population that i think is better described as a dislocated population large number of unaccompanied children arriving here under circumstances that really if you were seeking asylum would be family reunification and economic you know looking for economic improvement or ability the problem with the concept of chain migration or family petitioning is that the waiting list for some of  these visa categories are so long that it really goes against all of the rhetoric right so some of them are kept to certain trees are kept under ten thousand individuals per year entering from those countries and there are some countries like mexico the philippines china and india that have in the form where you just literally say i am related to this person and i'd like to request this person that gets approved in about a year it's part two where you actually do the adjustment process and request that they be allowed to enter or just internally that has to be the caps attached to it that then creates extensive waiting and it's not just within the family magician category that's across all these categories so another example that we serve a lot in our office is the you use a category for victims of crime the federal kennedy the idea that law was to remove quotas from specific countries and to allow people legally in the united states to bring that their next of kin and the logic of that which actually it is logic was to support families of the idea that americans are very focused on the integrity both hands i remember lawyers telling me in those difficult times have to make everybody feel included in the school to who understand their culture the different cultural backgrounds of the students and two who appear to understand to see move in the state that really we're not going to do without making sure that the original voices are towards that heard and it's not just us standing up and saying this makes sense this is a common sense measure whatever it is but i will also say that there have been times in instances even government so it's not that we can't organize it's not that we don't know how to organize it in fear it does play a part into it at a time plays a part and then i think just knowing how to access resources and access those who are able to help and assist is also a huge part of it so for that any advocacy for any kind of limit on immigration and i would say just as anecdotally as a pastor i've noticed that  holds attitudes toward immigration have been part of being for that reason because anyone who believes in limits at all immigration they're just not finding any common ground with what i've heard so far so you know continue to do that but i found that taking people's objections seriously and not excusing them just because they might disagree with you responding or being ridiculous has is helpful question what's the real problem here i don't think the real problem is that we want laws i don't think the real problem is that you know liberals want open borders you can service while close borders we know way more than we do know that we have to follow the money and for c e o s of corporations it makes the most sense for immigration reform to not happen because then they're organized cannot unite us cannot run for their rights but if we want a country that is founded on an actual values of this country then we have to start holding work ration to accountable we have to start holding our legislative accountable in same listen we had a bipartisan effort  open to immigration that our country would be overwhelmed because everybody wants to come to the united states that is absolutely not true immigration is a very  public and with a camera look at me and that i really wanted to have a serious discussion about the right to movement there is no reason to imagine that if we were more tolerant towards people who are interested in coming here we would not actually benefit rather than be see those people as birds and asked climate change curtail the options of so many people in so many parts of the world you can rest assured that there are going to be more people dislocated by political conflict and by plane magic change and we welcome from everything you definitely well i think i will come from the situation in which we will be administration as well as in is that if you have had access to public charge to public benefits and have been a public charge you not be eligible to adjust status or applied to adjust status and so the it's and you're seeking assistance for something if you're on documents you're not in the correct type of sad still apply you're automatically not going to be able to apply and apply for assistance for if you have a citizen child is not legal your child is a us citizen they are eligible to receive assistance if the household income is not sufficient to cover the needs of that home like food stamps or wic and the second part of that is i think there's a misconception within the way that our policies are written currently which are a ways freights a whole lot of parents of households that we might know and are ization that are accessing services for their children or perhaps are taking care of every other child in their neighborhood so other mothers can take care and go to work provided because they are single mothers so there's a there's a lot of different examples in which the exterior bounds of what we know or kind of information that you're kind of going with is not sufficient to make a proper determination but that is what other charges and that's kind of the direction that they're had fighting for a family well i want to know is why is it so difficult for undocumented immigrant to find a job and is there anywhere they can go to look for employment someone who's undocumented has access to an employer is they are able to gain employment many times there are eight below minimum wage there are labor abuses involved each that involved and so in those instances are ization does get involved and with the department of labor they're not interested in that they're just interested in getting an individual employer that you know her to use further to that so for employment versus purposes i would say you know it's very difficult to say you're always constantly undocumented drivers who are able to access trucks exist but it would also benefit individuals who really value their privacy and say you jersey is not related to comply and they will be forced to do so it's a federal law that was passed two thousand and four post nine eleven requiring the going to even talk afterwards and who want to jump in with that what i feel their pain about it still deplorable behavior because they are the victims policies that occur at the corporate level it mostly has to do with