in the event that any of the unaccompanied children are places in foster care connected to the school partnerships that include academic support and have connections with legal certifies and legal support services for san francisco legal educational network. while this graph represents a support cycle it shows and the new comers can access those services at any point >> i wanted to describe the preparation so far we're gathered the data to help the unaccompanied children engrossment and evaluate our new comer system of support connected with our city partners with mayor's office and the supervisor campos office and the office of immigrant affairs and explore grants from private foundations to support those students. moving forward we will continue to enhance the the new comer system to address the needs of the cabinet constrain through the development and collaborate with school partners to coordinate social services and monitor the simplest has needed. we also planning to hire a staff person to coordinate the immigrant population thank you commissioners. >> thank you kres h christine

the bill also provides $197 million to take care of these unaccompanied children. ensuring they have proper housing, meals, and temporary care while they are in u.s. custody. third, madam speaker, to stave off the continued influx of illegal immigration, the bill redirects existing state department funding to ensure that countries like guatemala, honduras and el salvador must quickly accept and repatriate these returning from the u.s. this bill draws a hard line on spending, scrubbing the president's request to the couse -- focus on the most immediate needs. it does not include funding for longer term needs or unnecessary programs like cash subsidies for coffee farmers. any additional funding for this crisis can and should be addressed under the regular appropriations process for fiscal year 2015. in addition to make sure that this bill doesn't add a penny to , we make sure there's offset using prior year funds. lastly the bill includes several policy provisions recommended by the speaker's working group on .he border crisis representative kay granger of texas will

by providing legal services to unaccompanied children for two decades. i could not be more proud of the difficult and often thankless work my staff has performed. we know the opportunity to be represented and seek fair consultation could well be the difference between life and death. we urge you to prioritize the protection of these children and ensure they receive to process. thank you. >> let me ask megan mckenna, the communications director. >> thank you, congressman, and other members of the caucus. my organization has matched unaccompanied children with pro bono attorneys since 2009. we have hard-earned with law firms, corporations, and law schools, which agreed to represent the children referred to as. we have trained pro bono attorneys and have referred over 6300 children and we opened our doors. kind is greatly concerned about the treatment of these uniquely vulnerable children who are coming to the u.s. in record numbers to seek protection in their home countries of which they are as pacific targets. many of these children are fleeing forced rec

and we need to tweak the 2008 law about removing unaccompanied minors. need to treat apprehended minors from central america in e same manner we treat apprehended minors from mexico and canada. the president has called for such treatment. d.h.s. secretary johnson said the act of 2008 needed to be amended. quote, in terms of changing the law, he said, we're asking for the ability to treat unaccompanied kids from a central american country in the same way as from a contiguous country, end quote. that's what this bill does. based on language written by representative carter. and it makes the important clarification that all minors from any country who do not have a credible fear of persecution and have not been trafficked shall be expeditiously returned home. because the president's inaction, we are taking the responsible step today of passing these narrow fixes that will help the american people avoid billions of dollars in additional costs due to the president not trying to solve this problem, but asking for more money to continue to resettle tens of thou

this body knows that daca has nothing to do with the unaccompanied children. and it is a disgrace -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. ms. jackson lee: the hardworking students like the one -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. ms. jackson lee: he was undermined with a disgraceful bill. disgraceful bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is outed -- out of order. ms. jackson lee: i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is no longer recognized. time has expired of the the gentleman from virginia. mr. goodlatte: at this time i'm pleased to recognize the gentleman from iowa, mr. king, for three minutes, a member of the judiciary committee. the speaker pro tempore: the entleman will suspend. the gentleman from iowa is recognized for three minutes. mr. king: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i appreciate the gentleman from virginia, chairman goodlatte, for yielding. there are a lot of people in this congress that i appreciate a great deal tonight. but i listened to the anger and the fury over

these undocumented and sometimes unaccompanied children also come with special challenges for these local schools. christie smith is in oakland this evening where the school district is expected to hire a special consultant to help with these kids. >> reporter: many of these young people we're talking about are awaiting hearings in immigration court. they're not here with their parents. and they have health care issues. a language barrier. the open unified school district thought the quickest way to handle it was to get a point person onboard. at east bay sanctuary kof nantd in berkeley they have experienced handling people fleeing from central america into the u.s. >> we're seeing more children. we're seeing more people fleeing gangs. and that's a problem. >> reporter: they offer legal services and expect to get new referrals from oakland public schools. >> they identified unaccompanied child. they will talk to us, and then we'll interview and see if there is some remedy. >> reporter: oakland international high normally sees five to ten unaccompanied minors. >> this year we have 50. it's

that's why unaccompanied minors has gone to 90,000 people this year, 150,000 people next year. i'm not sure why we're so down on what washington did. the house republicans passed two bills. both of them had over 95% of republican support. it said let's address the cause of the problem and that's the president's lawlessness to our immigration laws and let's look at the solution. the only people attacking themselves win the republican party is this panel. the republican party did the right thing. >> kim >> the republican party, again, they have been down there for two weeks, three weeks saying the biggest crisis is to deal something with this issue down at the border. instead they had to go through again another act of self-emulation over immigration. look their pros pieces are very good for this fall. one of the key questions that will be asked is whether or not they can govern and in a moment like this down there which is exposing all the wounds and the fact that the party can't get it. >> republican party did a good job of governing here. president laid a trap. he tried to bla

that's the increase of unaccompanied children 12 and younger caught at the u.s.exico border compared to the last fiscal year. now compare that to 12% which is the increase in unaccompanied 13 to 17-year-olds over the same period. so if the younger group seeing rapid growth even though overall teens outnumber the young in here's the numbers broke down in the year. the this data comes from the research sent their analyzed previously unreleased data a from the u.s. government. numbers show a big rise in young girls caught at the border. 77% increase since last year. boys have only seen 8% increase. again, they still greatly outnumber girls. 41% of all unaccompanied girls are apprehended at the u.s. border. it's clearly a tough issue. obama has said he'll take matters into his hands if congress fails to act. most do tend to have more faith in democrats. this time around obama is falling short. most u.s. hispanics now disapprove of the president's response to these arriving children. >>> now have you got a dog with a weight problem? there's a gym in the u.s. that migh

diablo. 62,000 unaccompanied minors enters the u.s. since october. 4,000 taken in by california. we've taken in the third largest group behind texas and new york. nanette miranda for "today in the bay." >>> as we mentioned, south san francisco unified starting school. many elementary schools returning with a focus on physical education. over the summer, the board discovered some schools were not meeting state standards, according to the san mateo daily journal. elementary school students must have 200 hour of p./e for every school days or 20 minutes a day. the district found 44% of schools meeting the requirement for all grade levels. district thinks the shift to implement common core, focus on math and language arts, allowed p/e to slip through the cracks. >>> south bay returning to school. >> parents getting kids ready for clasp the district bracing for a very busy day. bob redell, the district bus drivers starting to show up? >> reporter: they are. after few months off for the summer, this is their first day back as well. where you get the first sense that school is getting ba

from south vietnam in the 1970's, and as they watched new generations of unaccompanied central american, haitian, and even cuban children arriving in the u.s., as they married and had their own children, and as they confronted changing political circumstances on the island and in the u.s. that allowed for dialogue and travel to the island beginning under the carter administration in the 1970's, and during the pope's historic visit to cuba in 1998. their competing collective memories about pedro pan came to the forefront of politics with a new degree of urgency in 1999 during the transnational custody battle for the five-year-old elian gonzalez. for cuban americans who identify with or as cuban exiles, it has emerged as one of the principal metaphors for and symbol of the exile from a regime so oppressive and atheistic that loving parents were willing to sacrifice their children and send them into exile alone to protect them from communist indoctrination and preserve their catholic faith. peter panists have become living symbols of that. their parents' decision and the decision of all ex

at least 150 of them known to be unaccompanied minors. san francisco's trying to accommodate 200 students from central america, hiring two to three more teachersen 64 in contra costa county. 19 plan to attend schools in mt. diablo. 62,000 unaccompanied minors entered the u.s. since october. california has taken in nearly 4,000 since january. certainly a large number. the third largest behind texas and new york. >> thank you. >>> if you're on social media, share a picture of us with your back-to-school routine. use #backtoschool. >>> 6:0 a. some survivors of the 2010 gas pipeline explosion in san bruno are not ready for new homes to be built in the old neighborhood. neighbors are unhappy about a propose that would add 30 homes to the area. since the blast, the neighborhood has seen continuous construction and people who still live there are worried the proposed housing project will make the area even more chaotic. one neighbor said, loud booms and construction noises trigger some people's posttraumatic stress disorder. >>> south bay worker

there's a reason why, particularly the unaccompanied minors are flowing across the border. because they don't feel like anything's going to happen to them. we're going to take care of them. we're going to actually -- oh, we'll go ahead and take you. then we'll pass you off to somebody else. if you had a note in your pocket, we'll pass you off to somebody else, do we do any background checks on who we're passing these minors to? no, we don't. do we check the legal status of the person we're handing them off to? no, this administration doesn't do that. it's fund mentally to its core wrong. and a key part of this system is what the united states citizenship and immigration service does along with this process. we've got a lot of good men and women. patriotic, working hard, trying to do the right thing for their country. but i worry about the direction that they're giving. the direction that they're being given by their management. and i worry what this administration is telling them to do. or not to do. and that's a deep concern. so, mr. chairman, i appreciate you holding this

there's a reason why the unaccompanied minors are flying across the border. they don't feel like anything's going to happen to them. we'll take care of it, pass you off to someone else. did we do any background checks on who we're passing these minors off to? no. this administration doesn't do that. it is fauundamentally wrong. a key part of this system is what this add american station does. they're patriotic, working hard, they're trying to do the right thing for their country. i worry about the direction they're giving. the direction that they're being given by their management. i worry what this administration is telling it to do or not to o do. i appreciate you holding this hearing. i yield back. >> thank you. the gentle woman from california. >> let me begin by welcoming you to the day's hearing and the new position as director of the u.s. citizen have and immigration services. i think you don't usually get the kind of attention that dhs departments do. but it's very important. families hoping to immigrate. persons fleeing persecution and torture. they

. >> we are all familiar as we mentioned with the surge of unaccompanied minors crossing the mexicander in the u.s. right now. as federal agencys drug toll properly care for these young people. there is a suggestion this crisis was more orchestrated than it appears. the department of homeland security was quick to recognize the severity of the situation as more information about the temporary housing conditions emerged. >> this is a problem of humanitarian proportions. in thissest our goal to quickly and safely transports the unaccompanied children out of cvb custody not hands of ahs. supplementing the process all along the way . >> many of the young people came from countries other than mexico like honduras and el salvador legally complicated ability to just sends them back over the border. critics of the obama administration's response says there is no way the influx could come as a surprise, even going so far to say it's being used as political maneuver. how does america deal with what is estimated as 1,000 children a day. how can the administration close the flood gates joining u

this year somewhere around 90,000 unaccompanied children.ext year, the number is likely to rise in total to a quarter of a million. >> in central america, the media is telling the folks if they come to the united states now, because of the dream act and some of the other things that have been proposed, they'll be able to stay. the people smugglers, the human smugglers, which take the children out of their villages and shepherd them through mexico, they're making a ton of money. >> we have to be careful here. this is not simply the cartels and human smugglers. the administration has been accused of orchestrating this. >> why would they want this to happen? >> what is happening is this is taking u.s. border patrol agents, moving them from -- >> away from the border into -- >> even a reduced rate. they're now nursing children. >> administrative tasks. but listen -- >> the cartels are in control of our border. >> i understand. let's get back to your statement the obama administration wants this to happen. this wipes out any immigration reform th

half also knew that it was an unaccompanied minor. we have also interviewed independently as a case study context unaccompanied minors as well as immigrants to get a full sense of the story, the issues that had to do, for example, with economies of scale with coyotes. but, when you ask them why did they -- we volunteered. the answer was insecurity in our country. only 3% said something about permiso. it is clear for which ever way you want to look at the issue with the problem comes from, again, knocking on the door with security in central america. development because the security is not nothing but the presence of an underground economy operating along the lines of networks that find the operating costs of working in the criminal sector as a profitable one. therefore, economies are not just against, formal economy but in formal. context, ithis continues to be seen, it is important to go back to the development. ago, i came as a project of central america 2020 and provided a blueprint for economic growth for central america. it was u

communities from michigan to texas are still bracing for an influx of unaccompanied minors. >> i'm pretty sure you'll agree it's nothing like you've seen before. if they seek asylum they'll be interviewed by an asylum officer. while they're doing the due process, we'll provide the safe environment for them. >> but the governor of texas said that the crossing of unaccompanied minors in his state is not his chief concern when it comes to the problems at the border. >> i think that is a side issue, what we're substantially more concerned about in the state of texas, li will suggest across t country, are the 80% plus of individuals who don't get talked about enough that are coming into the united states illegally and committing substantial crimes. >> so, wait, 80% of the people that are crossing the border commit crimes. that's what the governor said. the president not taking any action figuring out the next move when it comes to the crisis continuing to weigh his options considering to dan pfeiffer yesterday. >> first, i think the reports you're seeing are uninformed speculation. >> complete

and that has supercharged the influx of unaccompanied minors and just been like any other market-basedituation. people do that which gets rewarded. when the president of the united states sends a message that it's okay to come, then they do and that's increased the influx at least tenfold. >> we just heard from mike emanuel about the issues involving school kids in terms of this influx having to put them in school, clothe them, oftentimes having to feed them at lunch and those kind of things. give us a sense of the other challenges that this influx is causing in arizona in addition to the schools. have you seen an increase in crime? what's happening on the ground? >> well, there's a genuine concern for the children in arizona. and, you know, i used to head the children's department or the office for children in arizona some years ago, so i have a great concern for these children. but what is profoundly significant that i think this administration misses is that when they send this message, as they did, it creates additional children coming over and they make that long, very dangerous t

already this year, nearly 6,000 unaccompanied minors from central america have crossed the u.s.border and been released to sponsors in virginia, d.c. and maryland. mary's center alone has received more than 500 of the unaccompanied children over the past few weeks, putting a serious strain on its resources. since its founding, the organization has grown enormously, in order to address the needs of children and adults who've received little or no formal education and many of whom don't speak english. mary's center now offers schooling and social services, in addition to medical care. a few days ago, i visited one of mary's center's four locations in the washington area and spoke with its president and founder maria gomez. maria gomez, thank you very much for talking with us. >> thank you. >> woodruff: so you have run mary's center for over a quarter of a century since 1988. you have seen families. children, coming into the united states from central america and other places. what are you now seeing how is that incoming of people changing? >> the incoming that we're seeing it's al

. >> as school starts for the fall semester thousands of unaccompanied illegal minor children will be admitted into the school systems without proper proof of immunization. we're seeing that they're using this state statute and reclassifying unaccompanied legal minor children as homeless and have to be admitted into schools without recorded of immunization prior to starting schools and officials cannot deny them an education just because they don't have proof of immune sayings before the start school. >> who decided the thing to do is reclassify illegal children as homeless? >> so, essentially what is going on here is the federal government, the justice department, the department of education, are saying the public school systems in our states need to educated these children. these children are entitled to an education now. the states are scrambling to find a code in the state statutes to classify these children in virginia, it's under the homeless statute. mean children who are living in hotels or don't have a regular home. so that's a way for the state to commie with the federal req

>> they should be because they're going to end upholding the bill bill. 60,000 kids unaccompanied by anybody. we can stick a lot more people per bathroom a lot more people per square foot. we're housing these people at our expense. congress has simply gone on vacation. they voted down this money that was just going to be thrown at it anyway so they would feel better about themselves. but neither one, the republicans nor the democrats come up with a plan. i'm begging these congressmen to go down there and tell us what's going on. they can't afford it. these cities and counties, they are not very wealthy counties. they simply can't afford it. they have to have a new translation. not to mention all the health risks. not exactly being seen by doctors regularly. it's not just texas. children are being shipped all over the country. do you agree with john? >> i agree that we need congress to do a job and the funding that they need. those counties are in need, although they have assistance in place and it's important to tell our viewers that we are respecting the laws. 50,000, 60,000, whatev

i'm here a san francisco native for the advocates and i'm here in support of the resolution for unaccompanied mirandize. and first and foremost i'm the daughter of a once undocumented cabinet my father emigrated to the united states with a lens first grade education and not but one pair of shoes and one of a city that was deemed the murder capital of the world for more than a decade. my father taught me everyday was education is the only thing they can't take away from they, take our house and money and all our material goods but not your education and thanks to that i was the first to graduate from college and the first to get a master degree i'm in full support of this resolution san francisco is a sanctuary city and with the richness in renouncing resources we have to be a sanctuary district thank you. (clapping.) so i see we have other speeches i don't have cards for. how many speakers do we have. two speakers please explain the prototype it's a card before the card is called >> she identified last night when the cards were given i we'll allow one minute each. >> good evening my name is p

be responsible for is really building the awareness to all of our sites who will be receiving unaccompanied immigrant children insuring with the teachers and the whole system of support is ware of the resources that are out there really strengthening our system so we can be able to get the students. >> the timeline for hiring a staff person. >> additionally we're thinking the qualifications will be that of a social worker so a social worker is uniquely trained in the effects of trauma and the impact of being separated from our family that's within our discretion to hire it wouldn't be a delay we have kind of i guess identified funding so open the position my time immediately and start the process of filing that position. similar to what we have a decked staff for the homeless program and we've proposed that quite possibly we'll need a dedicated staff for our immigrant children and wastepaper learned with the support of the superintendant we staff that we if we have the numbers playing out we can move quickly on the position >> would you tell us when the position is filed and commissioner wy

on july 8th: >> the white house today asked congress for $3.7 billion to deal with the flood of unaccompanied children coming into the united states illegally. >> jon: okay. but i don't think they asked for it by putting it on a white board on a fence. $3.7 billion dollars. that's a lot of money. congress? >> we're not going to write blank check for $4 billion. [laughter] >> jon: you do realize how, chairman of homeland security, that a blank check can't be for a specific number. you know that? once you write a specific number, $4 billion, $2 billion, whatever it is, it loses the vital quality of blankness. it's not blank anymore. i don't know if we should really elect people that don't know how checks work. [laughter] sir, there's no amount here. sir, you've just written... it's just a stick figure with bags of money on it. i know. i want to deposit the money, but the guy won't tell me how much money is in the bags. [laughter] if you don't want to spend $3.7 billion on this, fine, smash cut july 31st. >> the senate's own $2.7 billion plan failed to pass a preliminary vote this week. >> jon:

unaccompanied minor act which is our law. there is an of this we need somehow, maybe for other reasons for people sneaking across but we are talking about people who are seeking out our people and saying here we are. i wanted to be clear about that. was correct, they are very well coached. the john lynch from -- gentlemen seek time? additional 35 million dollars provided to fema for the reimbursement of states will require states to apply for the money. -- does femadment have the ability of the the discretion to deny -- ability of the discretion to deny funding under the amendment? >> they would need to apply for it to be reimbursed. >> does fema have the ability to deny that reimbursement? for well substantiated claims. ok, thank you for the clarification. i yield act. >> i want to thank committee for their insistence to move through this hearing and thank our witnesses and they are now excused. ofs ends the hearing portion this hearing and we will now -- thosegnize there are including the gentleman mr. gomer it and others w

unaccompanied children from countries that do not border the u.s. be cared for by the u.s. government or a relative or sponsor if they have one until a deportation hearing is scheduled. >>> just days after the a's signed a ten year lease with oakland, the city of san jose went to court to try to bring them to the bay. a ninth court of appeals panel that major league baseball is preventing the team's move, saying it's a violation of federal anti-trust laws. >> the a's want to exercise that agreement but baseball has refused to allow the a's to locate in san jose. >> a lower court has already determined that major league baseball has an antitrust exemption, the ninth circuit court expect to do issue a ruling within the next 30 days, the case will most likely end up before the u.s. supreme court. >>> the high speed rail authority discussed what to do with money raised from a state environmental fund, the rail project will get $250 million of cap and trade revenue in the next fiscal year, it comes from polluters who pay into the green house gas reduction program. just yesterday

since october more than 62,000 unaccompanied minors entered the country. california has taken in more than 3900 since january. that's the third largest group, after texas and new york. much more back-to-school coverage all morning long. if you're on social media, share your back-to-school routine. twitter nbcbay area and also on instagram. >>> solemn tribute to who hollywood legends are lights the famed chinese theater dimmed in honor honor of lauren bacall and robin williams. this is the eighth time in nearly 90 years the theater has gone dark. steps away, hollywood stars of bacall and williams illuminated as fans dropped off flowers, candles and notes to pay their respects. more on the legacy of lauren bacall in a moment. >>> an emotional tribute to the late robin williams. with his voice trembling, jimmy fallon called williams the muhammad ali of comedy. >> he's one in a million, like unbelievable. if you ever saw this guy stand-up, if you don't know stand-up, just amazing. he was -- he was funny. he was fast. and he was in and out of chashgs, get shake