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Raids that are planned, what do you think is motivating this push right now from your perspective? >> well, a couple of factors, and i think what were hearing is sort of reflecting the challenges and immigration policy that the same administration could be accused of being too sympathetic and too harsh at the same time. what it is is an increased flow of families from central america. minors who come over alone are granted a certain status by law because, of course, theyre minors. families that ...

Migrants from afghanistan as well. the u.n. is asking the u.s. to take in 65,000. critics say the united states needs to do more as the world watches these images that at times are horrifying. william lajeunesse joins us with more. >> there is no legal obligation on the part of the u.s., but is there a moral responsibility? germany is taking 800,000 by the end of the year, most from syria. the u.s. has taken in fewer than 800 syrians. aid groups wants to jump that up to 45,000 by next year. but ...

Ar arwa, why are authorities holding up the trains? >> reporter: well, hungary has maintained its simply abiding by the dublin agreement and appealing to european union laws when it comes to the whole asylum process, dictating an individual needs to apply for asylum at their first point of entry. the problem is no one wants to fight for asylum in hungary because they dont have a say in hungary. the other problem is going to the camps. at this stage this is even more important that many of them a...

Well, they say theyve been prevented -- well, they have been prevented from entering the station here. you can possibly see the cordon, the police cordon blocking the entrance of the train station. but only to migrants who say that most of them have actually bought tickets, expensive tickets to go all of the way to munich, germany, where most of them want to apply for asylum. they spent as much as $150. weve seen those tickets. weve seen the price. and they say that that was what was left of the...

People coming from the right saying were not sending folks home quickly enough. that number includes 54% of latinos. there seems to be a good bit of criticism of the presidents handling coming from the left, coming from immigration activists. youve even seen, you know, potential presidential candidates like martin omalley coming out to the left of where the president is. >> yeah, its interesting. youre starting to see that a lot on the hill. you have members of congress, minority leader pelosi, ...

Would have funding but also have strings attached to that. that would be changes to the 2008 asylum law which made it these children from central america are automatically put into the asylum process. that could be changed or at least ask for that. other maybe border patrol, border security kinds of measures. so its a little unclear now. republicans have a little bit of space, because frankly democrats are a bit divided about what they want to do on this. theyre in a wait and see pattern i think...

America are automatically put into the asylum process. that could be changed or at least ask for that. other maybe border patrol, border security kinds of measures. so its a little unclear now. republicans have a little bit of space, because frankly democrats are a bit divided about what they want to do on this. theyre in a wait and see pattern i think. >> what would be the problem with altering the 2008 law? that passed on bipartisan lines at a time when there was just far fewer families trying...

Emergency funding to beef up the boarder, crack down on immigrant smugglers and counter who officials call a campaign of misinformation by the smugglers promising central american kids who come here can stay. michelle is at the white house and joins us with reaction to the plan. the white house made emergency requests for more funding and requests for power for the homeland security to try to deal with the crisis. tell us the details. >> this money, obviously, is like what republicans are callin...

With a record number of over 1.7 million people who have been deported and separated from their families, we know that at any point we could easily be swept under the deportation machine and be deported back to countries that we havent been to in a really long time. so essentially we recognize that we were already running that risk and we have been in contact with a lot of youth and families who are wanting to come back into the united states, and theres no other way for them, theres no other wa...

Authorities still really seems to be a very solid red line for russian president vladimir putin. so talking about snowdens options. they are clearly narrowing. bolivia, before the plane incident, was probably at the front of the pack. now bolivia is probably fallen back because bolivia now has seen the kind of u.s. pressure, sometimes subtle, sometimes less subtle often behind the scenes that the country is exerting on these so-called snowden friendly countries. take ecuador as well. only last w...