Prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu receiving permission from his parliament to dispatch up to 40,000 Ground Troops for calling a Ground Invasion into gaza, quote, on the table. And public bomb shelters have been open throughout the jewish state. Well be following this developing story throughout this hour. Turning now to the humanitarian crisis on our southern border, the white house efforts to politically exploit the estimated 60,000 children who have illegally crossed our border this year appear to have backfired on the administration. Democrats and republicans alike blasting president obama for his planned trip to texas tomorrow. The white house saying at this hour that he will not visit the border, nor the facilities overflowing with illegal immigrant children. Instead, president obama will be spending his time fundraising in dallas and austin. Here is press secretary, josh earnest, trying to spin away the president s seemingly ambivalent attitude about the crisis that is largely of his own making. The president is well aware what is happening on the border. Of and what we are focused on right now are not political statements that would be made with a with an appearance. But rather with specific, concrete action. Texas republicans claim the president is simply trying to avoid a negative photo op, and the media mal strom that would follow. If hes down there with pictures of thousands of children in jail cells designed for, say, 400 people, and youve got 2,000 there, its not a good image. If its a national emergency, which i agree it is, why is the president raising money for two days in texas and refusing to come to the border and see it for himself . Democrats are now joining in the criticism of the president and the white House Minority whip, steny hoyer told fox news, quote, the United States cannot be expected to give sanctuary to everyone in the world. I dont think it would hurt if he visited the border. That would send a signal that he is concerned. Meanwhile, fox news today confirmed the white house will hold off in seeking legal changes that would speed up their ability to deport these unaccompanied children. Joining us now is congressman bob good lion, chairman of the house Judiciary Committee, instrumental in laying the foundation for leadership on emImmigration Reform, passing out of the Judiciary Committee congressman, good to have you with us. Your reaction to the president s call simultaneously for expeditious passage of the supplemental, requesting 3. 7 billion, and comprehensive Immigration Reform once again. Well, first of all, lou, im glad that he met with governor perry. My committee was instrumental in making available to governor perry some of the ideas he shared with the president. But i also want to have your viewers step back for a minute and think about what the president asked for. 3. 7 billion, and ultimately passage of the Senate Comprehensive Immigration bill, which wouldnt solve this problem. It would cause a massive surge of our border, as people saw that 11 or 12 Million People got a special pathway to citizenship, they would want to be next. So there are many things the president can do right now, and what he still doesnt get is that his actions, with doca as he referred to there, with not investigating fraudulent asylum claims, and doing other things that he could be doing right now to fix this problem, those things have sent the message to south america to cause the problem. So, yes, the congress should be prepared to do a targeted narrow appropriations supplemental on a temporary basis to address the legitimate concerns of solving a problem, and narrow targeted tweaks to the 2008 law. There are many things the president could do right now before any of that happened that could solve the problem that he created by his actions that hes taken to this point. Unlike the president , you have been to the border. You led a bipartisan delegation to the border. You know whats going on there. You know about the positioning of our Border Patrol agents. You know that even though we have almost 21,000 Border Patrol agents, more than double what we had a decade ago, that they are positioned in such a way that the border remains absolutely a sieve. Porous doesnt even begin to adequately describe the ease with which illegal tvqimmigran drug smugglers, human smugglers and potentially terrorists could enter this country. Correct . Thats absolutely correct. And there are measures that the president could take and tweaks that the congress could pass to make sure that National Wildlife refugees and other things along the border like that, government land, wouldnt be off limits to our Border Patrol agents who, by the way, are doing a very good job when they are able to spend their time on the border and not babysitting these children. So the fact of the matter is that the president should go to the border and see firsthand, and not just send other people to be there. And the president should go to mexico and to Central America to impress upon those governments how much they need to participate in stopping these children from ever getting to our border in the first place. Where is the president getting some of these information . He said the only place where these children are showing up is the rio grand valley sector in texas. I would like to just put up quickly a map, if we may, to show our audience the surge in young, Illegal Immigrants entering this country, flooding the United States border. In texas, rio grand up by the largest amount, 178 , laredo, 13 , big bend, also in texas, as is el paso, 59 higher. El paso, 33. And arizona, the yuma sector, up 39 . In california, the san diego and del centro areas are also up by a startling percentages, 59 and 41 . He said one sector. Who in the world told him that . Well, there is no doubt that one sector is getting the greatest pressure. But this is a problem that is occurring all across our border, because of the fact that the word has gotten out that this president is not enforcing our immigration laws with regard to children, and not just children. With families that are also showing up the border in almost as large a number as the unaccompanied minors. And so theyre going to keep on coming. The Border Patrol agents are the best people to ask how to stop this. He should go there and ask the guys on the line, and what theyll tell him is that deterrent is the only way to stop this from happening. They need to make sure that the children dont get there. They need to make sure that when families do come, that asylum claims are investigated for fraud. Studies show that 70 of political asylum claims are have suspicion of fraud involved. But they rubber stamp the overwhelming majority of the cases. Could be done right now without the president violating his oath of office. He is the chief executive of the United States. He has laws under his guidance right now that he could enforce, and yes, we could do tweaks in the congress, and we should. But that should not be used as an excuse not to do what hes supposed to be doing right now. Many of the people who are acting as custodians in this are claiming there is not adequate resources in all of immigration and Customs Enforcement the. To actually check out who these people are, where theyre being domici domiciled, what the resks are of the family environment or the environment in which these Young Children are now living. It is a firstclass mess, and it is a government that has simply broken down under this administration, in my opinion. Do you disagree . I agree with you. And i think that we are reaping a tsunami at our border because of the president s policies. It is an administrationmade disaster. The president needs to step up and lead in the solution to this problem. And, yes, congress does need to give targeted funds where theyre going to be used to stop the problem and create the deterrents, and congress does need to make tweaks to the law to make sure that the Border Patrol and i. C. E. Can fully do the deterrents. But there is much he can do right now that hes not doing. Mr. Chairman, we thank you for being with us, as always. Congressman bob good lott. Israel is hitting back. A ground offensive in gaza. Former israeli ambassador to the United States, daniel ialone, joins us live from tel aviv. Israeli forces are intensifying their attacks on gaza after rockets from the hamasrun territory struck deep within israel. Hamas warns all israelis are, quote, legitimate targets, as more than 300 rockets have been fired from gaza over the past 48 hours. 200 of those rockets have slammed into israel. For more on the situation, were joined now by former israeli ambassador to the United States, daniel ayalon, live tonight from tel aviv. Mr. Ambassador, it is good to see you. This is thank you. Stunning, the intensity of the exchange between between the rocket barrage from gaza and the israeli strikes. How this seems utterly different than the most recent history of conflicts between hamas and israel. Absolutely, lou. I think all of us were surprised by the arsenal that the hamas has been able to amass and to smuggle illegally to the gaza strip. They have long range that covers, so most of the population of israel, 8 Million People are under this reign of terror and rockets. The fact also that theyre trying to be more accurate and also trying some diversion tactics. They have grown into an enormous terror organization, which has actually very, very significant military capabilities with trying to infiltrate and continue with very intensive terror. If you think about the fact that since we left gaza and israel left gaza almost nine years ago, in attempt to make peace with the palestinians. Since we left, more than 15,000 rockets land on israel. This is more than three times than what london received in the blitz of the germans, the nazis in world war ii so you get some perspective of what were doing here, and what were undergoing here. And i think the question has to be asked, to what degree can israel afford to constrain itself in response . I understand the need to be targeted and if you will, to carry out surgical strikes. But to defend israel, youre in quite a different situation. This is this has the appearance of something that could escalate rather rapidly. The Prime Minister has received from the Parliament Approval for 40,000 troops to be dispatched. Where are we headed here . Yes, lou. All options are on the table, although there is no appetite in israel for Ground Invasion. We are in that sense we have been reluctant warriors. But if the aerial strikes will be insufficient, and if the hamas will continue with targeting our civil populations, we may have no choice but to go into in a mopup operation. So far, we have been doing aerial attacks, and we are very careful not to cause any Collateral Damage or hurt any uninvolved. For that purpose, for instance, we are degrading our ammunitions and also we are very deliberately restraining ourselves in the sense that we know some of the arsenals that hamas is hiding is specifically put in mosques or schools or in hospitals. These we are not targeting. But if we have no choice, we will have to go into a ground operation. Decisions have not been made, and i think were waiting for the next 24 hours to see where were going. The psychological atmosphere in israel is somewhat certainly different than in previous conflicts in that we saw in president obama oped in which he effectively praised president abbas but didnt mention netanyahu. We heard from a white house official, phillip gordon, talking about in effect intimating that israel must seize the moment with president abbas, because he has shown himself to be a man of peace. These are strong signals emanating from a an administration, particularly in a moment of conflict like this. Well, lou, of course we very much appreciate the United States attempts for peace, and certainly the recent rhetoric from washington, recognizing israels right for self defense. This is something which is very important. But it at the same time, i think it was a little bit awkward timing to publish this article of the president yesterday when most of israel is in shelters, and the hamas has continued to fire and target civil populations. And we have to remember, this hamas is now part of abbas government. And you cannot split their responsibility between the hamas terror and the abbas government. And i think he should be taking into task and also, i think the entire International Community has to understand that we are now reaping the i would say the sour grapes, the fact that the welcome of hamas into the government without actually standing on the principles, the hamas first should renounce terrorism and recognize israel and abide by former agreements. Nothing of this red lines were kept. Hamas was welcome into the government, and i think they got the wrong signal, and we are now all bearing the consequences. And i think this is a lesson for the future. There is no difference, lou, between hamas radical terror and its islamism or isis. Terror is terror. And unfortunately, there is a network which targets not only israel, but the entire western world and civilization. Ambassador daniel ayalon, good to see you. Stay well. Stay safe. Up next, my commentary on what is really driving the thousands of illegal immigrant children across our southern border. Andit not what the white house has been telling the american people. X÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷ now a few comments on the debate about whats really driving illegal immigrant children to make what is a hazardous, dangerous journey up to 1,800 miles from el salvador, guatemala and honduras to the United States. The Obama Administration has been blaming it on endemic poverty and rising violence that grips those countries. The president s critics say his language seems to hold promises of amnesty, that those are the statements that are to blame for all that is happening. Lets consider the facts. Central america is violent, there is no doubt. Honduras has the highest murder rate in the world, in fact. El salvador, fifth highest, guatemala, the sixth. But sadly, there is nothing new in those rankings. Those countries have had the worst murder rates in the world for at least the past two decades now. And, yes, poverty levels are persistently high in those Central American nations. But all three of them also have lower Unemployment Rates than the United States. Thats right. Honduras and el salvadors average Unemployment Rate last year, 6 . Guatemala is about 4 . Three years ago, u. S. Border patrol agents were catching fewer than 4,000 illegal immigrant children from el salvad salvador, guatemala and hondu s honduras, but this year the number surged ten fold to 40,000 and 50,000. Why the explosion in the number of children crossing our border . The principle change during that time period was the president s 2012 executive order that promised that certain illegal immigrant children would not be deported for a period of two years. Now its estimated that more than 200,000 children will be crossing our southern border within the next two years. And what does president obama do in response . All but nothing. He refuses to secure our border. He refuses to deport the minor Illegal Immigrants he and the left are exploiting in order to open up the border and to grant amnesty they sought for the past decade. Today mr. Obama did ask congress for another 3. 7 billion to deal with the crisis of his own creation. By the way, 300 million of that 3. 7 billion he wants would go to assist centralamerican countries so they can improve their security. 300 million, about double the 160 million in aid we already give guatemala, honduras and el salvador every year. Another 300 million to repatriate some of the children to Central America. Of course, the white house does not mention how or how many. Much of the remaining 3 billionplus would go for more immigration judges, Legal Services for immigration proceedings, higher costs for the Border Patrol agents who are spending more hours, while allowing the tens of thousands of children and in many cases their families to enter our country illegally. I dont know how Speaker Boehner and the Republican House leadership will respond to the president s request. But this president , in creating this crisis, has made a mockery out of the office he holds and the constitutional duties he refuses to honor. This time, mr. Speaker, please, let the president go in the company that he so strongly prefers. Let him go it alone. Were coming right back. The Obama Administration means to bring in as many Illegal Immigrants as it can, being sent to Processing Centers across the country without notice or community approval. A california town fights back. Murrieta mayor, allen long, our guest here next. A third group of Illegal Immigrants arriving in san diego earlier today, the 140 Illegal Immigrants flown in from texas. They were bussed to a processing center. About 100 people protesting their