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   From: kenyantimes@barackobama.com   
      
   Put Obama on the border and make him stand guard.  Armed with a   
   pen and piece of paper, and his mouth of course.   
      
   BROWNSVILLE, Texas — President Barack Obama will seek more than   
   $2 billion to respond to the flood of immigrants illegally   
   entering the U.S. through the Rio Grande Valley area of Texas   
   and ask for new powers to deal with returning immigrant children   
   apprehended while traveling without their parents, a White House   
   official said Saturday.   
      
   With Obama looking to Congress for help with what he has called   
   an "urgent 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. without documentation since October.   
      
   "The fact is these are children — children and families," Pelosi   
   said. "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 said. Details of the   
   emergency appropriation, including the exact amount and how it   
   will be spent, will come after lawmakers return from their   
   holiday recess July 7, said the official, who was not authorized   
   to speak by name and discussed the requests on condition of   
   anonymity.   
      
   Obama will also ask that the Homeland Security Department be   
   granted the authority to apply "fast track" procedures to the   
   screening and deportation of all immigrant children traveling   
   without their parents and that stiffer penalties be applied to   
   those who smuggle children across the border, the official said.   
      
   http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2014/06/obama_to_seek_   
   2_billion_for_bo.html   
      
       
      
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