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Aggressive plan for dealing with this border situation. it's a lot of money they're 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 will pay for the lawyers and judges for all of these children to go through that process. the que...

Difficult, but the administration is saying, like i said before, if there's any chance we've got to get a handle on this border situation. we'll 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. there's a lot of moving parts. the interesting part here, richard, of course the immigration advocates are saying they're going to fight the president on this on...

Humanitarian issue. we can't deal with these children in the way we deal with adult illegal immigrants. they come across at the hands of human smugglers. they're 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 they're landing in different states without telling the governor. in massachusetts, for example, they're coming in by the dozens into massachusetts, and the governor doesn't even know. what kind of plan is this? >> i don't know what kind of...

Sitting in the the chairs working and i don't 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, it's dead on arrival. as you may know, rubio was one of the republican and democrat senators who reached a break through bipartisan break through. another member of the so-called gang of 8, john mccain tweeted, headed down to southern arizo...

Analyst and a retired u.s. army general. let's get to it. the u.s. state department doesn't have evidence that there's links between the cartels and the terrorists, but they are worried that terrorists could exploit the situation. what's 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 it's a potential access point, not just for criminals but also terrorism. >> let's talk about the porous border situation as we heard from jose there talking about how it's the america...