Real estate market. Plus taking the plunge, the water slide that is taller than niagra falls. Ill take you on our first person report. We begin with a battle over immigration. Tonight president obama addressed the issue head on speaking out in dallas. What started as a fundraising trip for the president led to a round table meeting with texas officials including governor rick perry. The issue is not that people are invading our noarms officials. The issue is enforcement officials. We are, while the attending to uncomploind children with the compare and compassion that they deserve while they are in our custody. Our libby casey is here with the latest on this. Tell bus the latest on the meeting with governor perry. Pushing back on republicans, especially these thousands of children now hee and the governor met and the president talked afterwards and he laid out a couple of concerns that governor perry emphasized and among them were worries about having enough resources on the border. The president says look if Congress Passes this spending bill i want, we with have more money about that. Also worries about the judicial process. Are there enough judges . Can this process be expedited . Once again the president says if we work with congress we can get nor accomplished. Heres what the president had to said about that. What i want to emphasize to the governor is the problem here is not a major disagreement around the actions that could be helpful in dealing with the problem. The challenge is is congress prepared to act to put the resources in place to get this done . Another way of putting it, and i said this directly to the governor is, are folks more interested in politics or are they interested in solving the problem . If near interested theyre interested in solving the problem, then this can be solved. If the interest is politics, then it wont get solved. That hes not been tough enough on security and other issues. Also libby, talk about the criticism hes getting from within his own party and that he should visit the border itself. Thats right. Hes gotten criticism for not visiting the border. It was build as mostly a fundraising trip. They said youre there, you should go further and visit the border yourself. Including Homeland Security secretary jay johnson has gone down five times and planning to go again. He said im not going down for photo op, this is not about optics, this is about solving real problems. The the money the president is asking congress for, the question is the nuts and bolts, the parties have different goals in seeing where the money is allocated. Libby casey, thank you. Thousands of undocumented immigrants continue crossing, struggling is sitting on this texas border, are hungry and often frightened migrant countries make theyre way to this church gymnasium. All they have is the clothes they are wearing and a notice to appear in court. There, norma and a team of volunteers are waiting. They have an opportunity to take a shower, to eat, to see a doctor. Reporter the groups with women and children come in, after being detained by border agents. Sister norma opened the catholic shelter in mccallum with nowhere to return. We are not aiding and abetting anybody. We are actually assisting folks in the community that need care. We are doing a humanitarian response. A care that anyone would do, even anyone who is protesting against it, should see the face of a child and would help as well. You know because its a human being. Reporter for most families like this man and his 12yearold son, the shelter is only a rest stop. Reunite with family elsewhere in the u. S. Their journey took almost two months. They were detained monday and are said to appear in court next month. Translator i want to find a job. God give me the opportunity. The same way he allow me to get here im going oget the chance to work, the right way, to get a better future. Reporter border facilities in mccallum, 57,000 children have been detained. These children are coming and in most cases i think theyre coming with an adult. In some cases some of the moms say they brought their kid, but they also brought their nephew, because she is not the mom, so they become unaccompanied child. Reporter looking to reconnect with families in the u. S. Jonathan martin, a al jazeera, mccallum, texas. Threats that the assault could move to the ground. Hamas has fired more than with two dozen rockets from gaza. No deaths or serious injuries have been reported from israels side. Hundreds of israeli air strikes have hit that region. Speaking about moving the battle to the ground and invading the gaza strip, some are talking about reoccupation of the territory. John hendren is there. Reporter the acceleration of the military on the gaza strip has centered. Overnight a twoyearold girl was killed in a refugee camp here in gaza city. A driver of media 24 was killed in his car. And a coffee shop was struck by an israeli air strike, celg seven and injuring as many as 17th. That death toll continues to rise overnight, as the israelis launched a barrage of strikes on gaza city and throughout the gaza strip. Meanwhile, rocket attacks continue to fire out of gaza as well. Those landed throughout gaza including a near nuclear site in israel that was nearly 70 kilometers away. However, gazans report that all of the deaths are happening on this side of the border, and the big concern here is whether the air war will now be followed by a ground war. A new israeli tactic seems to be destroying a number of homes. Theyve been doing that for over a day now. With that seems to have accelerated. Some of those homeowners have received warnings. Others have not. John hendren is gaza at this time tonight. Life goes on but with growing anxiety and anger. Our Nick Schifrin is there. Tell us how people there are handling all this . Reporter yes, jonathan good evening. This country is suffering from a barrage of rockets that its never seen from gaza and its not only here near gaza, down south in israel, but also miles north in what this country considers its most important city. Before this week israelis thought tel aviv was far enough from gaza to be safe. But for the first time ever, gaza rockets are reaching tel aviv and this couples wedding is in rain, the camera pulse up showing an straily missile trying to intercept a gazan rocket. This rockets intercepted as the bride makes a quick get away. Whenever tel aviv and the areas around it are attacked as they have been at least six times in the la 24 hours for israel its different. Tel aviv is israels economic capitol, where the military is based. This city best represents the country. This is where the attacks take more importance than anywhere else. There might be rockets, there might be air raid sirens but nothing could stop eli and shimrit from getting married today. Are you guys scared . Its a bit nerve wracking this period but we are going forward. Some might call it defiance. Others say they are in denial. But for eli ron, he believes the military operation will succeed. There would be fewer rockets and less chaos. Reporter but when i show them rockets and chaos during the other couples wedding the night before their faces change dramatically. I hope they will stop at all the chaos. We hope there will be quiet on both sides. This is our day. Lets celebrate. Reporter for this couple, tonight ended happily. But inside of gaza, and across israel, theres not a lot of peace and quiet or celebration. Wed been in tel aviv about five minutes before hearing our first air raid siren before a rocket was intercepted by the iron dome. Here on the gaza border all night weve seen a barrage from israel to gaza and a barrage from gaza into israel. Tanks and bulldozers moving in, signs that israel will increase its action inside gaza and therefore the rockets will increase inside israel. Nick schifrin, thank you. I asked earlier whether an Israeli Military invasion of gaza was at this point inevitable . Absolutely not. There is no such guarantee. Israel has made it clear that it has no desire to have a ground offensive. It will do so if necessary, if forced to do so. But there is no desire on behalf of israel or the Israeli Government to escalate the situation. Its been very clear from the beginning that the government and the military, theyve been reluctant to enter into this operation. But seeing that the rockets have been reaching israels main cities, living has become impossible around many towns. The people basically made it clear to the government that they expect action, they expect effective action, and what they want is the restoration of calm as soon as possible. So what needs to happen to force israel to launch a ground offensive . What is the criteria that must be met for israel to decide it is time to send in troops . Were hoping actually that the direction will be absolutely the opposite. That hamas will deescalate, they will stop shelling our cities. They are going as far north as haifa, even today, the president of israel, the Prime Minister, sent a clear message, that as soon as hamas stops barraging our cities, then israel will not launch any ground offensive. And the calm will be restored. But the concern obviously is that women and children in the gaza strip are dying. You say palestinians are attacking israelis but the argument is israelis are doing the same thing. Absolutely not. Israel never ever attacks sifnlts intentionally. It takes the greatest care and the measures that are not taken by any military in the world to forewarn civilians of attacks on military places. The problem of course is hamas launches its operations from within civilian areas from within neighborhoods from within schools. People are used as human shields, that they have even been admitted to business hamas. Israel lets people know even endangering its citizens in the process that it plans to attack military installations and sometimes civilians go to that place in order to try prevent that attack knowing that israel did not attack civilians and try avoid it as much as possible. No military in the world has ever taken the kind of measures that the Israeli Defense forces have taken. And hamas is doing Everything Possible to try to get civilians hurt in the process. Both its own and israeli civilians during its own attacks. I know you feel answer is for hamas to quit firing rockets. It seems obvious to a lot of people. But is there not something that can be done on the israeli side . Something more than what is already happening to somehow ease tensions . For days israel did nothing while rockets were being hauled at our citizens. And descreals israelis kept on sending messages we do not want to start, please induce calm and the are messages were sadly interpreted as weakness and forced us to a point where we are at least trying to prevent more attacks on our receivables. Annette will, former member of israeli knesset, i really appreciate it. Thank you. First of all how concerned are you that israel may launch a Ground Invasion in the next few days . Well, it seems that israel for sure is going to do this operation, because this attack on gaza has been preplanned, obviously and mr. Netanyahu has used every opportunity to create this attack. And let us put certain facts straight here. It was not the palestinians who started this conflict, it was israel, that carried out assaults on certain people in gaza and this led to a response from the palestinian side. Up until now, although there were several rockets set to israel, israel has conducted 600 air strikes. Up to now, not a single israeli has been killed but on the other hand 67 palestinians, mostly women and children have been killed by israeli air strikes. Moustafa, israel says the answer is clear, stop firing rockets. Why cant that happen . It would happen if the United States would help convene the Security Council, and the Security Council of the United Nations could immediately take a decision of cease fire. And im sure if israel is ready to respect that, that hamas would respect that. What kind of thoughts have you, talks have you had with leaders of israel recently . He this are reid to go back to the truce that has prevailed for past two years, and if israel accepts to let us have an independent plennian state. Nonviolence, if all the palestinian groups agree with that. If they are giving the chance to do so. But if israel continues the air strikes and killing palestinians they will only create more problems. As gandhi said once, violence breeds violence. There is only one way to get out of this vicious cycle which is for israel to accept palestinians as equal human beings. So then considering that, how does this end . How do you move on from here . Have you guys had any conversations with l israeli leaders . Has there been any discussion of getting the two sides together, to discuss a possible cease fire . President abbas has indicated he is will to negotiate on behalf of older citizens a cease fire. He has been talking to the american side as well but all we see is a preparation of a big army to invade gaza and more air strikes on a daily basis. More families killed. So far five families in gaza have been eliminated completely. We are talking about seven or six members in each family. The father, mother, children, were killed by israeli air strike. This has to stop. Moustafa, i hate to interrupt you, i wanted to go back to your point, you guys had had conversation with americans about a cease fire. Can you tell me more about what those conversations entail . Mr. Abbas had conversations with americans here and that conversation was about achieving cease fire. The whole west bank is boiling. It is not on hamas only, it is on the whole population of werchg. West bank, 2. 8 Million People living in this area. This requires that the United States restrains israel, retrains mr. Netanyahu who has made everything he could as Prime Minister of israel to destroy the last opportunity of peace talks when mr. Kerry took his initiative. And i think Many American officials admit already that israel spoiled the very last opportunity of peace negotiations. Thank you for your time tonight. Thank you. And still ahead. Strained relationship as second case of u. S. Spying in germany. What german investigators are saying about the situation. And sex on campus, why federal lawmakers are getting involved. For the second time in a week, german officials are looking into a situation of spying, involving the United States. The man under investigation worked at germanys defense minuteministry. The two cases are fueling tensions between the countries. The German Government saysists investigating but is not revealing more details. A new revelation tonight on spying and prying here in the u. S. Accusing the u. S. Of secretly investigating prominent Muslim Americans. John terret joins us. These are explosive allegations here. They are jonathan, thats absolutely right. We have known havent we that members of the muslim community, evidence seems to be emerging that very senior members of the muslim community, very senior indeed were also targeted. Of the five named today some of them actually worked for the government. Shock and surprise as to why. Reporter meet Muslim American faisil gill, working under george w. Bush and was spied on by his own government. I think some in the Law Enforcement community or the Intelligence Community wouldnt have seen that compatible. Reporter among the archives supplied by snowden was a spreadsheet showing fisa recap. Spying on americans by a court if theyre suspected of a terr terrorrelated activity. So was assim garfor a prominent attorney who represented american muslims if terrorism related cases from capitol hill. Former head of the School Center for middle eastern studies. Arga saad, a muslim who worked on registering to vote, and care the largest Muslim Civil Rights Organization in the country. The fact that theyre targeting these prominent Muslim American activists and lawyers suggest that they are considering peoples political and religious views in deciding who to focus their energies on. Faisil gil said he would like to see changes. What im hoping happens is congress or the administration actually looks at these policies again and puts in safeguards so thing like this dont happen. Reporter all five vehemently deny any involvement in terrorism. In response, the office of intelligence says, solely because they disagree with Public Policies or criticize the government or for exercising constitutional rights. Now, according to intercept there were more than 7,000 emails intercepted in the case of those five muslim mental and jofnt of course, all of jonathan of course all of this comes on the day thatting Edward Snowden applies for one more year of asylum in russia. Ray nagin was convicted of ten years in prison. He was mire of new orleans for two terms. Straight ahead, sex crimes on campus, the disturbing trend and whats being done about it. Plus a study in trouble. A scientists with a rare Marijuana Research grant lost her job with a major university. This is Al Jazeera America. Im jonathan betz. Coming up this half hour. Failing grades. A Staggering Number of american colleges are breaking the law when it comes to investigating Sexual Assaults. Child soldiers forced from their homes and given guns. Well talk live to one warrier at the aiming of 13. And a wild ride. The water slide higher than niagra falls. The battle over immigration intensifies, president obama addressed the issue today during a trip to dallas. The president met with texas liters including governor rick perry about how to tackle the issue of unaccompanied miles an hour crossing the border. What i emphasized to the governor is the problem here is not a major disagreement around the actions that could be helpful in dealing with the problem. The challenge is is congress prepared to act to put the resources in place to get this done . Another way of putting it, and i said this directly to the govern