Washington, this is meet the press with david gregory. Good sunday morning on a holiday weekend, a lot going on. This humanitarian crisis on children crossing the border is a staggering problem and so are the numbers. Check this out, more than 50,000 children have been caught since october 2013. That is more than double the year before just to give you some sense of how desperate the situation is. Our Miguel Almaguer joins me from murrieta, california, a town thats been a flash point in this story so far. Good morning. Reporter good morning. This is the Holding Facility in murrieta. It is a flash point, a symbol that galvanized two opposite sides. These are the faces of the desperate and scared, just some of the now thousands of unaccompanied minors packed into 100 temporary shelters dotted across the country. Go back home a group of them greeted with anger, some called hate as protesters turned away busloads of california families after they were illegally caught crossing the border.
Will be coming to our courts. It will be substantial. I want to help you with this, but how can you come to us with a budget request if you dont know how many courts or how its going to speed this process . I think every one of you talked about speeding up the process to making sure the kids get back to the appropriate that need to go back to the country. I want to be helpful. I want to vote for this. Senator, may i . Sure. The assumption underlying the request from doj is that well be able to add an additional case load of 55,000 to 75,000 cases a year. Overall. And right now they are handling how many a year . Right now the pending case load is 275,000. 275,000. Okay. Okay. Significant. How many kids are going to come into the border every day . These days, its up the total apprehensions of the kids unaccompanied is about 250. It was higher. Its down to somewhere between 200 and 250 a day. So we will be able to make significant inroads into these kids as far as moving them through th
There are ways to make it work better. I can only have so much money. Im going to enforce the broken laws, im going to try to do it the best i can. Easy give me resource money to deport them because they are here without documents, let me go after the criminals, the drug dealers, guys trying to do us harm before after before i go after the kid in school who might be the valedictorian. President opposed a program called deferred action for children, daca. Kids who were brought into this country usually through their parents when they were very small and have spent most of their life in this country and most of them do not remember the home country they came from. Many have gone on to be valid dorians and many are going to great universities. Rather than go after those folks and trying to hunt them down, let me have down the ones trying to sell drugs to our kids. Using his discretion on how to use the resources to deport people in the country without documents. That is the use of executi
Stephanie because i heard Rush Limbaugh expound on healthcare yesterday and i thought you might have some thoughts on it. Does he want to know if oxycontin is covered . Stephanie i dont know if i have insurance or not. His thoughts are really someone who can afford their own healthcare out of pocket. Thats someone that really has a grip on exactly what the average person goes through. I think hes in touch with the common man. Stephanie exactly. All right. In the meantime, heres nurse jacki in the current news center. As expected, cory booker has won the democratic nomination land go up against republican steve for senate. The popular mayor of newark won about 60 of the vote with 90 of precincts voting. His closest opponent, Frank Pallone came away with 20. If booker wins the special election on october 16th as he is extremely likely to do, he will serve out the remaining 15 month of lautenbergs term then would have to run began in 2014. Egyptian Security Forces in cairo are cracking do
It makes it difficult to deny this. But certainly it is part of a broader phenomenon, the idea that al qaeda and hamas or isis are one and the same, no. They are very different. Each has their own local grievances that are married to the broader ideology. I should note that there have been links over time. And also the same goes for hamas links to iran and some of it acts as well. We are still dealing with his broader phenomenon and it has been written us an surged in the 1990s. We tried to deal with it in the gulf and iraq war era. Failed, we tried to pretend it wasnt there but the phenomenon still exist. That withting a sense the amount of critique i am nowng, we need to refocus on the islamist threat. Question did a fantastic job of virtually every scrap, globally, that could possibly be used to weave these together. I think there are two registers. Are linked in a reinforcing way. You asked in what direction does it reinforce. But there is also a nonreinforcing way. All islam and t