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Aggressive plan for dealing with this border situation. its a lot of money theyre asking from congress, nearly $4 billion. even more than originally expected. about $2 billion of that will be to house and care for these kids awaiting this legal process of asylum that they go through. in some cases it takes years ago, but that process is required by law, even though in reality, most will likely just be sent home. another $1.5 billion will adjust border security, and enforcement. and the remainder...

Difficult, but the administration is saying, like i said before, if theres any chance weve got to get a handle on this border situation. well see what the reaction is of john boehner today. his office did not respond to questions i posed the other day when this news broke because they want to see a detailed proposal. the white house has not given out all the details. they want to get tougher on smugglers as well, tougher penalties. theres a lot of moving parts. the interesting part here, richard...

Humanitarian issue. we cant deal with these children in the way we deal with adult illegal immigrants. they come across at the hands of human smugglers. theyre all alone. they are young. they have no support system here. basically they are sent across and on their own and that leaves law enforcement here trying to deal with that situation. >> i understand theyre landing in different states without telling the governor. in massachusetts, for example, theyre coming in by the dozens into massachuse...

Sitting in the the chairs working and i dont want something to have been missed because of the hangup in washington. >> reporter: and the vote is expected sometime after congress returns to work on february 25th, harris. >> harris: steve centanni, thank you. florida senator marco rubio talking about the white house plan for immigration reform saying quote, its dead on arrival. as you may know, rubio was one of the republican and democrat senators who reached a break through bipartisan break thro...

Analyst and a retired u.s. army general. lets get to it. the u.s. state department doesnt have evidence that theres links between the cartels and the terrorists, but they are worried that terrorists could exploit the situation. whats the threat? >> the threat is the 2,000-border is essentially uncontrolled except the legal crossing points. 800,000 people a year cross it illegally. a million a day legally, so its a potential access point, not just for criminals but also terrorism. >> lets talk ab...

I think they have a responsibility to do the job. i dont think the administration is trying to end run as was implied a minute ago. but, why would senator grassley or anybody else be concerned if they had been doing their job proposing something in the area of immigration reform? >> dana: one thing i wanted to ask you about. i know you will have an op-ed out talking about how you believe that sb-1070 put arizona on the defense. and you think arizona knee -- needs to go on the offense and america...

Responsibility to do the job. i dont think the administration is trying to end run as was implied a minute ago. but, why would senator grassley or anybody else be concerned if they had been doing their job proposing something in the area of immigration reform? >> dana: one thing i wanted to ask you about. i know you will have an op-ed out talking about how you believe that sb-1070 put arizona on the defense. and you think arizona knee -- needs to go on the offense and america when it comes to im...

Responsibility to do the job. i dont think the administration is trying to end run as was implied a minute ago. but, why would senator grassley or anybody else be concerned if they had been doing their job proposing something in the area of immigration reform? >> dana: one thing i wanted to ask you about. i know you will have an op-ed out talking about how you believe that sb-1070 put arizona on the defense. and you think arizona knee -- needs to go on the offense and america when it comes to im...

Situations of the waves of undocumented immigrants coming in through their borders. but florida has an issue that they simply feel as though they dont have a firm control as to their border situation, and its not because people are coming through, its just that they feel helpless. >> now we have heard the promise from jan brewer that shes going to send this decision to the appeals court. she says all the way to the supreme court, if thats necessary. whats your sense that were going to see legisl...

For president trump to be fighting especially with his base? >> well, i think without question one of the largest problems in america is better border situation is still horrible and its been that way for years. we argued this during the reagan era, gave clemency to people, said we were going to fix it and never have. i think it is interesting that jerry brown is taking a jab at the white house by releasing somebody who was arrested on weapons charges following these weapons charges related to g...