Affiliates caught up with one woman who said she is furious with the president s request in nearly 4 billion in Government Funds to handle the situation. Its not right. Now billions of dollars want to be borrowed from the white house to help feed and house them. What about the [ bleep ] kids here in our neighborhood . In our country . All these kids really . Why cant this he go back . Im sorry that the parents are in poor Living Conditions or surroundings or whatevers going on out there, i dont care. I care about whats going on right here in my own backyard, my neighborhood. Now later today Homeland Security secretary jay johnson gets a firsthand look at a facility that will house undocumented immigrants in artesia, new mexico. He may not get a warm reception in the state. New mexicos republican governor Suzanna Martinez blasted not just the president in the border crisis but her own party at as well, pointing her finger at congress for failing to get anything done. She wrote the immigration situation we face today is a direct failure of gridlocked washington lawmakers and president obama. Immigrants flood across the border or parents drop their children there expecting the federal government to just throw up its hands and let them in. Thats not an immigration policy. Thats a failure of leadership. Ana cabrera joins us will i have from artesia, new mexico. What should we be expecting . Reporter were at the federal Law EnforcementTraining Center in artesia, inment number. This is a place normally used to train special agents, other federal officers but it has been converted in the last couple of weeks into a temporary housing facility for many of these undocumented immigrants. Now were told so far more than 200 adults with children, mostly women with children, have arrived here. Theyve been bussed here from texas, where they crossed the border illegally. Again many coming from central america, so you cant just turn them around. We understand this facility has the capacity to take in some 672 undocumented immigrants, and immigration and Customs Enforcement owe fishes tell us they expect a whole lot more to arrive. Weve learned that here they get to stay in what you might consider dorm rooms. Theyre provided with food and with clothing. They have access to a refrigerator, other snacks, other kind of everyday creature comforts, meant to feel more or less sort of like a normal life inside the confines of a campuslike setting. Children get to play outside. They are bringing in teachers to help educate the children, which is a requirement by federal law. We anticipate seeing when we get a chance to tour the facility a much different scenario than what it we have seen inside texas, the crammed and overwhelmed holding and processing centers. This is only meant to be temporary, these undocumented immigrants can only stay here while they await deportation or work their way through the Immigration Court system. You mentioned that jay johnson, the department of Homeland Security secretary, will be coming here within the next few hours. Hes going to take a look at the facility himself, just opened within the last couple of weeks, to see how things are going. Listen to what he said yesterday, testifying on capitol hill. Doing nothing is not an option. At our current burn rate within the department of Homeland Security, i. C. E. Will run out of money in midaugust. Given the added transportation cost, given the added enforcement cost, customs and Border Patrol will run out of money by midseptember at the current burn rate, given the situation we face. All of this costs a lot of money, so were seeing that becoming another obstacle in this ongoing Immigration Crisis. We know already more than 52,000 unaccompanied minors alone have crossed the border, again, in texas, just since october, and there doesnt appear to be an end in sight, brianna. Ana cabrera, thank you so much, from new mexico. Many Illegal Immigrants make the dangerous trip across the border, willing to risk it all to escape a life of violence back at home. Kyung lah follows one woman whose journey started in ghwat ma, she made her way across three countries and traveled more than 3,000 miles. Here is her story. Reporter speeding down a highway in northwest washington this is the end of a long bus journey. But youre seeing the beginning of an undocumented life in america. We first met petrona hen her son rudy 1300 miles south in el centro, california. Her toddler, so exhausted, sleeps through the interview. As his mother recounts the nightmare of their life in guatemala. Translator i just want us to live and it wasnt going to happen at home. Dwa watt ma lan gangs threatened to kidnap and kill rudy unless she paid them. Theyd already broken both the legs of petronas father and killed another child in the family. To escape a death threat, her husband had already slipped illegally into america last year. She would do the same. Two weeks ago, like so many others, she slipped easily into mexico at the guatemalan border but shortly after she crossed a river into texas she was arrested and brought to a detention center, joining dozens of other mothers and children. To cope with the tens of thousands of Central Americans like petrona, the government flew her and about 100 others to arizona. Then drove them to the Border Patrol center in el accept to re, california, to be fingerprinted, have their picture taken and given notice to appear in court. Shes released on her own recognizan recognizance. Translator im almost there. Reporter she tells her husband on a borrowed cell phone. Hes living in washington state. He sent her money to buy the ticket and petron and rudy bored the greyhound for the 38hour trip north. Not in murrieta not in murrieta usa reporter protesters in murrieta say they dont want the influx of undocumented immigrants to come and burden their town, but petrona and all the other undocumented immigrants weve met are heading to other cities across america, absorbed into the north, the midwest, and east. What if america makes you go back . No. Reporter i will never go back she says. Her son would be killed. Its been more than a year since santos has seen his family. Rudy doesnt recognize his father, but that doesnt matter right now. I dont know how she did it, he says. So stunned, hes not sure what else to say. They say petrona will show up for her federal hearing but theres little incentive, no monitoring and the very real risk of deportation. Under that shadow begins their undocumented life, like the millions who have already made this journey. Kyung lah, cnn, tacoma, washington. Kyung just introduced us to one family making the journey up from guatemala into the u. S. And they are hardly alone. Since last october 57,000 children alone without their parents made it across the border. Most are coming from central america, guatemala, as well as el salvador and honduras. The purple dots on the map are towns where people are coming from, trying to escape a cycle of poverty and violence. The bigger dot the more the people there are leaving, and when those immigrants arrive at immigrant facilities in the u. S. , they enter the american legal system which can be confusing for young people especially for those who do not speak english. Joining us to discuss this is jonathan ryan, executive director of a group that helps provide lowcost Legal Services to immigrants. The first question i have for you, jonathan, is how do you find these immigrants who need your help or how do they find you . Well, my organization has been working inside of the unaccompanied minors shelters that are maintained by health and Human Services since 2008. So we literally are working inside of these facilities. We were the first notforprofit inside of any of the department of defense facilities that are being rented out to health and Human Services. We are now in our fifth week working inside of lackland. So were meeting these children inside of the Detention Centers theyre being held. How many people do you have helping these kids . Currently r. I. C. E. Has a staff of 40. 25 of us are dedicated towards this work, and we recently received an emergency grant from a foundation here in texas to expand and sustain our current emergency civil legal aid response. So if youre dealing with this crisis, were talking about undocumented minors, how do you give Legal Counsel to a child in a situation like this, a 5yearold, for example . Right. Well, dichbl from our criminal court system, individuals who are in the Immigration Court system have no right to be assigned counsel by the government. We have a situation where notforprofit organizations like ours are left to try to fill this gap by providing representation ourselves, or attempting to identify pro bono attorneys in the community who can help represent these children. When we work with older children, they can assist to us prepare their defense and explain what it is they want us to do as their counsel, but when you speak about a child as young as 5, you identify a situation where you have a young person who fundamentally does not understand the nature and purposes of this Immigration Court system, who potentially cannot assist their attorney at all in preparing their defense. So you have a system that can grind to a halt really as you see a prosecutor on one chair and the judge there up at the bench, and a 5yearold whose hit barely peeks over the brass buttons of her chair who has nowherewith al at all to the system shes in or ability to advocate for herself. We talk about the billions of dollars requested and poured into the deportation system we must understand that this is an extremely resourceintensive prosecutorial system that really may not be appropriate for the treatment of refugee orphans. Let me ask you about this. There is, we believe soon, Bipartisan Legislation in the house that would propose loosening this requirement for a deportation hearing, which is one of the reasons that youre kind of seeing a backlog here with so many undocumented immigrants now surging into the u. S. If that i guess the idea democrats want to protect there being some sort of process for immigrants to have their, have kind of maybe their day in court or to make their point if they are under threat of violence or something in their home country, but when you hear that proposal, how does that affect your work and how does it affect the imgrants that youre working with . Well, to my knowledge, i cannot think of another example where we have as a nation attempted to change the law in order to make it less humanitarian, in order to restrict access to justice and to due process, just tovulnerab system of justice or access to civil legal aid. Our countrys laws of refugee and Immigration Law go back to some of the commitments that we made during world war ii. The greatest generation of our nation went to war as we remember not to defend our borders or our interests, but to defend our principles. Chief among those is that our nation does not return individuals back to countries where they may be subject to persecution or torture. So to change the law just for these children would really be a fundamental change in both our domestic and international commitments. I think that we should reflect as a nation on the history of these laws, their importance to our image as being the beacon really of democracy and freedom of the world. So im dishearten eed at the notion these children who are approaching our country seeking protection may be pretermated from even asking for our help. That will be part of the debate that we hear in washington. Jonathan ryan, thank you so much. Great insight. Thank you. As the thousands of undocumented children wait for their fate to unfold, a number of organizations are on the ground assisting with food, medical care, even emotional support. And for ways that you can help go to cnn. Com impact. Gop house leader also move forward with a plan to sue president obama. Theyre suing over the president s decision to delay part of his Signature Health care law without first seeking approval from congress. Let me make this clear. This isnt about me suing the president. Its not about republicans versus democrats. This is about the legislative branch thats being disadvantaged by the executive branch. What were talking about here are places where the president is basically rewriting law to make it fit his own needs. The republicanled house is expected to vote on the resolution authorizing legal action against the president later this month. The white house says the move is nothing more than a political stunt. And still to come, attacks from both sides continue in the middle east. One rocket launched into israel had even Cnns Wolf Blitzer running for cover. He is following all the action. Wolf . Reporter brianna, im here on the border, israels border with gaza, gaza, maybe a mile and a half, two miles behind me, just a little while ago we saw a plume of smoke go off, another israeli air strike. Well have a full report, its incredibly tense along the israeli gaza border. Much more coming up right after this. Body. It hugs you. [jeffery] i dont have to think about how to get comfortable anymore. [evie] this zips off so i can wash ityes, please. [robert]dude,tempurpedic is killing it. 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In the middle east, israel hit by at least one rocket launched from lebanon, seeing many rockets and Cnns Wolf Blitzer had to run for cover at one point when sirens wailed near his location at the israel gaza border. [ siren ] reporter you can hear the sirens have just gone off so were all being told to get to a shelter. This was on a gas station in ashdod where wolf was at the time and the two sides continue trading fire. 4 israel calls up 30,000 reservists in preparation for a possible ground assault into gaza. Casualties continue to mount in gaza at last report nearly 100 dead and were going to be joined by wolf blitzer ahead in just a moment. He is making his way from the gaza border to jerusalem as we speak, and we will be Touching Base with him as soon as we get him on the phone. Lets check our top stories now. Leana harris, the mother of the atlanta toddler who died after being left in a boiling hot car by his father, has hired a defense attorney. So far she has not been named a suspect or charged with a crime. The father, justin ross harris, charged with the boys murder, has been fired from home depot. He insists that all of this was a tragic accident. The man aus couped of shooting and killing six people had a history of domestic violence. Police say ron has kels exwife had a protective order against him after he beat her in 2008. Haskel kicked in his former inlaws door, tied up the family and demanded to tell him where to find his ex. He shot to death six of the people who you see here, including four children. The famently, as you can imagine, is devastated. They liked to go to the park. People dont really realize that sometimes they see thats just another happening but unless you go through it, its really hard. You have to forgive, and thats a process, and we can do that, even though six of our children have been taken from us. Haskel is charged with capital murder. 15yearold girl survived the shooting. In an article in the wall street journal americas top military leaders say they supported the Bowe Bergdahl swap. Letters written by the joint chiefs of staff say they were motivated by a core believe never leave a soldier behind. What about the threat of trading five highvalue taliban detainees for bergdahl . Admiral said they never posed a direct threat to the United States homeland or our interests outside of afghanistan. I do not consider them to be game changers. Still to come, will lebron james be wearing this jersey next season or is he going to trade it in for one with a cavalier style . Cnns Martin Savidge is in cleveland where fans have quite the interest. Hey, martin. Reporter hey, brianna. Its kind of a, a love hate thing when lebron left, they kind of hated him but if he comes back, oh, they are going to love him. Well tell you all about it in just a bit. At every ford dealership, youll find the works its a complete checkup of the services your vehicle needs. 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