Tuesday 8 July 2014

Obama asks Congress for $3.7 billion for immigration crisis

Demonstrators picket against the possible arrivals of undocumented migrants who may be processed at the Murrieta Border Patrol Station in California By Steve Holland and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. administration took steps on Tuesday to halt a cross-border surge of children from Central America, asking Congress for $3.7 billion in emergency spending and putting in place plans to make the youngsters' deportation hearings a priority. It was President Barack Obama's most substantive response to date as he struggles to gain control of a humanitarian crisis along the Texas border with Mexico and to fend off Republican Party critics demanding a tougher response. One of those critics, Texas Governor Rick Perry, was due to meet Obama in Dallas on Wednesday. White House officials said they never embraced the lower figure, and knew it would be higher than that.




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