BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — President Barack Obama will seek more than $2 billion to respond to the flood of immigrants illicitly entering the U.S. through the Rio Grande Valley area of Texas and ask for incipient powers to deal with returning immigrant children apprehended while peregrinating without their parents, a White House official verbalized Saturday.
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With Obama looking to Congress for avail with what he has called an "exigent humanitarian situation," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi visited a Border Patrol facility in Brownsville that held unaccompanied children. More than 52,000 unaccompanied children, most from Central America, have been apprehended entering the U.S. illicitly since October.
"The fact is these are children — children and families," Pelosi verbally expressed. "We have a moral responsibility to address this in a dignified way."
Obama plans to make the requests of Congress in a letter to be sent Monday, the White House official verbalized. Details of the emergency appropriation, including the exact amount and how it will be spent, will come after lawmakers return from their holiday recess on July 7, verbalized the official, who was not sanctioned to verbalize by name and discussed the requests on condition of anonymity.
Obama will withal ask that the Homeland Security Department be granted the ascendancy to apply "expeditious track" procedures to the screening and deportation of all immigrant children peregrinating without their parents and that stiffer penalties be applied to those who smuggle children across the border, the official verbally expressed. Obama's requests were reported first by The Incipient York Times.
In Brownsville, Pelosi verbally expressed she holds little hope that Congress will pass comprehensive immigration reform this year but that politics should be set aside.
"A few days ago I would have been more optimistic about comprehensive immigration reform," Pelosi verbalized. "I mentally conceived that we had been finding a way because we have been very patient and deferential of (Speaker of the House John Boehner) endeavoring to do it one way or another. I don't cerebrate he gives us much reason to be hopeful now, but we are perpetually perseverant. There's still the month of July."
U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's surprise primary loss this month virtually certainly doomed the chance for an immigration overhaul in the GOP-controlled House this year. Cantor, R-Va., had verbalized in favor of citizenship for immigrants brought illicitly to this country as youths. But he lost to a political tyro who made immigration the race's central issue, inculpating Cantor of embracing "amnesty" and open borders.
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This past week, a leading House adherent of policy changes verbally expressed legislative efforts on the issue were dead. Rep. Luis Gutierrez of Illinois, who's been one of the most bullish Democrats about the chances for action, verbalized he had given up. Boehner's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Saturday.
Republicans have upbraided Obama's immigration policies, arguing they've left the impression that women and children from Central America will be sanctioned to stay in the Amalgamated States. The administration has worked to send a clear message in recent weeks that incipient advents will be targeted for deportation. But immigrants arriving from those countries verbally express they are fleeing pervasive gang violence and crushing penuriousness.
The Border Patrol in South Texas has been inundated for several months by an influx of unaccompanied children and parents peregrinating with adolescent children from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Unlike Mexican immigrants apprehended after entering the U.S. illicitly, those from Central America cannot be as facilely returned to their countries.
The U.S. had only one family detention center in Pennsylvania, so most adults peregrinating with puerile children were relinquished and authoritatively mandated to check in with the local immigration office when they arrived at their destination. A incipient facility for families is being prepared in Incipient Mexico.
Children who peregrinated alone, like those visited by Pelosi in Brownsville, are handled differently. By law, they must be transferred to the custody of the Health and Human Services Department within 72 hours of their apprehend. From there, they are sent into a network of shelters until they can be reunited with family members while awaiting their day in immigration court.
Withal Saturday, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins verbalized up to 2,000 unaccompanied immigrant children could be transferred from overcrowded facilities in McAllen, Texas, to his county by the terminus of next month. He verbally expressed the orchestration is to have youngsters spend about three weeks in the North Texas county afore hopefully being placed with relatives who are elsewhere in the U.S. The federal regime will cover the costs, Jenkins verbally expressed.
Meanwhile, Pelosi verbally expressed immigrants' cases should be handled on a case-by-case substructure.
"We don't optate our good nature abused by those who would misrepresent what's transpiring in the Amalgamated States on the subject of immigration to affect how we deal with a refugee quandary," she verbalized.
The situation is drawing attention and politicians from both parties to South Texas. While Pelosi was verbalizing in Brownsville, U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, appeared with the first lady of Honduras, Ana Garcia de Hernandez, in McAllen.
Next week, House Judiciary Committee Chairman and Virginia Republican Bob Goodlatte is scheduled to lead members of that panel to the Rio Grande Valley, and House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, is scheduled to hold a field aurally perceiving Thursday in McAllen.
Pelosi verbalized she came to Brownsville at the invitation of local U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela to ascertain what Congress can do to avail.
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AP White House Correspondent Julie Pace in Washington and AP inditer Will Weissert in Dallas contributed to this report.
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With Obama looking to Congress for avail with what he has called an "exigent humanitarian situation," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi visited a Border Patrol facility in Brownsville that held unaccompanied children. More than 52,000 unaccompanied children, most from Central America, have been apprehended entering the U.S. illicitly since October.
"The fact is these are children — children and families," Pelosi verbally expressed. "We have a moral responsibility to address this in a dignified way."
Obama plans to make the requests of Congress in a letter to be sent Monday, the White House official verbalized. Details of the emergency appropriation, including the exact amount and how it will be spent, will come after lawmakers return from their holiday recess on July 7, verbalized the official, who was not sanctioned to verbalize by name and discussed the requests on condition of anonymity.
Obama will withal ask that the Homeland Security Department be granted the ascendancy to apply "expeditious track" procedures to the screening and deportation of all immigrant children peregrinating without their parents and that stiffer penalties be applied to those who smuggle children across the border, the official verbally expressed. Obama's requests were reported first by The Incipient York Times.
In Brownsville, Pelosi verbally expressed she holds little hope that Congress will pass comprehensive immigration reform this year but that politics should be set aside.
"A few days ago I would have been more optimistic about comprehensive immigration reform," Pelosi verbalized. "I mentally conceived that we had been finding a way because we have been very patient and deferential of (Speaker of the House John Boehner) endeavoring to do it one way or another. I don't cerebrate he gives us much reason to be hopeful now, but we are perpetually perseverant. There's still the month of July."
U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's surprise primary loss this month virtually certainly doomed the chance for an immigration overhaul in the GOP-controlled House this year. Cantor, R-Va., had verbalized in favor of citizenship for immigrants brought illicitly to this country as youths. But he lost to a political tyro who made immigration the race's central issue, inculpating Cantor of embracing "amnesty" and open borders.
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Nancy Pelosi: "Little chance" for immigration bill …
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This past week, a leading House adherent of policy changes verbally expressed legislative efforts on the issue were dead. Rep. Luis Gutierrez of Illinois, who's been one of the most bullish Democrats about the chances for action, verbalized he had given up. Boehner's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Saturday.
Republicans have upbraided Obama's immigration policies, arguing they've left the impression that women and children from Central America will be sanctioned to stay in the Amalgamated States. The administration has worked to send a clear message in recent weeks that incipient advents will be targeted for deportation. But immigrants arriving from those countries verbally express they are fleeing pervasive gang violence and crushing penuriousness.
The Border Patrol in South Texas has been inundated for several months by an influx of unaccompanied children and parents peregrinating with adolescent children from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Unlike Mexican immigrants apprehended after entering the U.S. illicitly, those from Central America cannot be as facilely returned to their countries.
The U.S. had only one family detention center in Pennsylvania, so most adults peregrinating with puerile children were relinquished and authoritatively mandated to check in with the local immigration office when they arrived at their destination. A incipient facility for families is being prepared in Incipient Mexico.
Children who peregrinated alone, like those visited by Pelosi in Brownsville, are handled differently. By law, they must be transferred to the custody of the Health and Human Services Department within 72 hours of their apprehend. From there, they are sent into a network of shelters until they can be reunited with family members while awaiting their day in immigration court.
Withal Saturday, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins verbalized up to 2,000 unaccompanied immigrant children could be transferred from overcrowded facilities in McAllen, Texas, to his county by the terminus of next month. He verbally expressed the orchestration is to have youngsters spend about three weeks in the North Texas county afore hopefully being placed with relatives who are elsewhere in the U.S. The federal regime will cover the costs, Jenkins verbally expressed.
Meanwhile, Pelosi verbally expressed immigrants' cases should be handled on a case-by-case substructure.
"We don't optate our good nature abused by those who would misrepresent what's transpiring in the Amalgamated States on the subject of immigration to affect how we deal with a refugee quandary," she verbalized.
The situation is drawing attention and politicians from both parties to South Texas. While Pelosi was verbalizing in Brownsville, U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, appeared with the first lady of Honduras, Ana Garcia de Hernandez, in McAllen.
Next week, House Judiciary Committee Chairman and Virginia Republican Bob Goodlatte is scheduled to lead members of that panel to the Rio Grande Valley, and House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, is scheduled to hold a field aurally perceiving Thursday in McAllen.
Pelosi verbalized she came to Brownsville at the invitation of local U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela to ascertain what Congress can do to avail.
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AP White House Correspondent Julie Pace in Washington and AP inditer Will Weissert in Dallas contributed to this report.
