Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140610:17:24:00
Immigration laws and foreign policy so we can address this. otherwise we're playing defense on the one yard line called the u.s./mexico border. >> congressman, this partly seems to be a resources question and you're of course part of the appropriations committee and that will be reviewing this request for $1.5 billion in additional funds. the budget for unaccompanied immigrants was just $35 million back in 2003. it's changed a lot. this year it was 868 million. how did the government manage to so misjudge the resources it takes to adequately respond to this phenomenon? >> not only they misjudg...