President Obama IS trying to follow CURRENT law.
"Amid border crisis, immigration judges push for more resources" PBS NewsHour 7/10/2014
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JUDY WOODRUFF (NewsHour): President Obama has asked Congress for almost $4 billion to deal with the recent influx of unaccompanied children from Central America. But Republicans in Congress have showed no signs of quickly giving the administration what it wants.
Jeffrey Brown has our report.
SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL, Minority Leader: What he appears to be asking for is a blank check, one that would allow him to sustain his current failed policy.
REP. JOHN BOEHNER, Speaker of the House: We’re not giving the president a blank check. Beyond that, we will await further discussions with our members before we make any final decisions.
JEFFREY BROWN (NewsHour): As the day began, Republican leaders were in lockstep against President Obama’s emergency request for $3.7 billion. It’s aimed at stemming the flow of unaccompanied migrant children across the Mexican border, some 57,000 since October, mostly from Central America.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans insisted the president’s underlying immigration policy is the real problem and his budget request, by itself, is not the answer.
SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL: But we want to make sure we actually get the right tools to fix the problem. And that’s not what we have seen so far from the president.
JEFFREY BROWN: The White House shot back that there’s a clear and urgent need for funding to add more immigration judges, detention facilities and other programs.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson made the case at a Senate hearing this afternoon.
JEH JOHNSON, Secretary of Homeland Security: The request that we have made for a $3.7 billion supplemental is indeed a lot of money for the taxpayer. From my perspective, this request has the right focus on deterrence, added detention and removal.
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