You see them again and invite gonna shine it's very catchy USA and with international recognition project and we are here today because we about to fighting a competent Anti refugees and ask my muscle, causes Situations prevented from reaching safe the Damn that the administration has a House on refugees from 11 cut nine of which are Muslim majority and on those in the family vacation process Even more damage to the us refugees cut back Speak for themselves. I want to share with you some of their stories, John one is an Iraqi and former interpreter for the us army. This life He was told in October to get ready to travel to the United States where his former military supervisor two is also an Iraqi former interpreter of the us are a professor and I Of the band is unable to three night as wife Jane go for is a transgender woman in each of Yes, that the us government itself at Jane go five single woman any wrap her husband divorce for after she was. can five militants because of her work with an American company Family left to depend on your back or mother father. Our sisters and brother are all Half that by coincidence, test It's one of our products very energy And few today nobody custom-made not in this or any other form, whatever Working in over and over again, that most difference have rejected My can you fighting Partner in the court have an My name is Park hatfield I'm the President and ceo of pius, which was founded as the keeper of immigrant a society for one of nine refugees, so many agencies that worse in partnership with the Department for state, welcome refugees to this country. We are proud to be partners with plaintiffs Jewish family service of Seattle, Jewish family service of silicon Valley. We were started in eighteen eighty one tel Jews were big the rooms of Russia and for making eighty one to 19 21 nearly three million choose found saving and refuge, even in record Here in the United States during that period, Chinese immigrants were banned from this country. We did not speak up then then in 19 21 us government came after us prevented Jews and Italians and others from coming to the United States and so we were consequently trapped inside of a holocaust in the 19 thirties with no place to run for that reason, we decided to stand up step out and speak up for Muslims who are now being excluded from the us to this puzzle band we're glad to have to stay in court with our partners at Jewish family service of Seattle, Jewish family service of sorts out Thank you I'm rabbi will book of its ceo of Jewish family service Seattle, JFS was founded in eighteen 92 help Jewish refugees, immigrants fleeing persecution, resettlement has been part of our name. Our work and our story for a hundred and 25 years through these years we have light our circle to re settle refugees of all religions the Jewish community, as a refugee people know all too well that when the United States of America is ignores the plate of refugees innocent lives will be lost the most recent executive Order and the government actions Associated with it directly harm the people. JFS serves we know exactly help perilous. It is when this great country of ours shuts its doors to the most vulnerable based on their religion. The executive order and the actions of this administration are at odds with both our core Jewish values and our American values roughly eighty percent of almost can refugees and resettled In the United States, in the past two years have been from nine of the 11 Trees, the goal of this executive order or clear the goal is to block Muslim refugees from entering this country without regard for the consequences of their children separated from their parents, husbands, separate Lives and siblings forever, apart, these are some of those consequences. Refugees, including and especially Muslim refugees, are already the most scrutinized people to enter the United States. They go through an eighteen to 24 month process with our government and its security agencies before they can arrive on our shores. This is There are dozens of steps and multiple cheques. The vetting is already extreme as it has been for a very, very long time. There is no evidence that the body was insufficient. There is no evidence that refugees who come here to learn English and to go to school and to work hard and become citizens and contribute to this great country post a threat to us. There is no evidence that keeping families apart will make us safer, but rather there is unequivocal evidence that closing our doors to refugees Because of their religion and leaving them stranded into a greatest of In the road to the moral fabric of our society of our country, there is evidence to this and we are better than that. Our history offers undeniable tragic evidence that when we, as Americans stand silent and allow this to happen in a simple Why they will be terrorist. It will be Thanks everybody um and we can take if anybody who's speaking today want to come back Look time for a couple of questions. If you have any question, you would like to address what happened in court room today and talk about working join try to say look at where feels like. I didn't do it. You have any through from our chocolate happens What do you think of general arts line of questioning, especially towards the government. You see in from skeptical of Happy difference oh medical research, yes, absolute, all Anything else you thank you