as we know, uscis adjudicates a wide array of immigrant and nonimmigrant petitions. families hoping to reunite. businesses searching for talent. persons fleeing torture, all to become american citizens all go through your agency and it's critically important to our country that your agency perform well. it's also important to point out that the uscis is responsible for all of these important activities without taxpayer money. it's entirely fee-driven except for a minor amount used for e-verify. all of the applicants pay for the services that they receive. our country? i sometimes mention my grandfather who came to the united states in the early 20th century. got on a boat, got off the boat, and i'm in congress today because he had the courage to want the american dream. the director's own story of his family fleeing turkey and poland to escape anti-semitism and to cuba, then fleeing cuba to escape communism. and here he is today part of the rich american fabric. i've always admired immigrants who have enough get up and go to get up and go. they made our country. we h

and our ability to adjudicate temporary nonconfirmations appears to be very effective. employers who utilize e-verify report high level satisfaction with that system. our agency has prepared a report to this body which was delivered some time ago that talked about what would be required to move to universal mandatory e-verify as a capability that we could achieve. i look forward to a continuing conversation with how we get there. >> i thank you for that. how do you ensure that employers -- strike that. how do you ensure those employers required to use e-verify such as federal contractors and employers of students in the optical practical training program are, in fact, using the system? >> congressman, i will acknowledge that as part of the many things i'm trying to learn as i come on to the agency, i have not yet had the opportunity to brief on that specific issue. i certainly would look forward to following up with your office about the steps that we take to verify utilization by that particular portion of employers. >> if you would keep us current on that, i would app

dofshlths most of the children after adjudication stay in this country?> up until the recent situation, the average pace at which unaccompanied children were deported was something like 1800 a year. >> and how many stayed? thousands? >> well, eventually if there's a final order of deportation and they've gone through the process, they should be returned to their home countries. >> should be. >> we've done that at a rate of about 1800 a year. and part of this request is so that we can accelerate that process so that more are returned, given the current situation. >> thank you, madam chair. >> thank you, madam chair and all of you for being here. let me start with you, jeh johnson. 433 million are slated to go to custom and border patrol. 364 for overtime and new border agents. where is the other $70 million going? >> good question. >> you can get back to me on that. that's fine. >> i'd be happy to do that. >> are these agents going to be permanent? the agents you are hiring with the additional 364? >> it's, i believe, for overtime and related cost in terms

dofshlths most of the children after adjudication stay in this country?> up until the recent situation, the average pace at which unaccompanied children were deported was something like 1800 a year. >> and how many stayed? thousands? >> well, eventually if there's a final order of deportation and they've gone through the process, they should be returned to their home countries. >> should be. >> we've done that at a rate of about 1800 a year. and part of this request is so that we can accelerate that process so that more are returned, given the current situation. >> thank you, madam chair. >> thank you, madam chair and all of you for being here. let me start with you, jeh johnson. 433 million are slated to go to custom and border patrol. 364 for overtime and new border agents. where is the other $70 million going? >> good question. >> you can get back to me on that. that's fine. >> i'd be happy to do that. >> are these agents going to be permanent? the agents you are hiring with the additional 364? >> it's, i believe, for overtime and related cost in terms

and our ability to adjudicate temporary nonconfirmations appears to be very effective. employers who utilize e-verify report high level satisfaction with that system. our agency has prepared a report to this body which was delivered some time ago that talked about what would be required to move to universal mandatory e-verify as a capability that we could achieve. i look forward to a continuing conversation with how we get there. >> i thank you for that. how do you ensure that employers -- strike that. how do you ensure those employers required to use e-verify such as federal contractors and employers of students in the optical practical training program are, in fact, using the system? >> congressman, i will acknowledge that as part of the many things i'm trying to learn as i come on to the agency, i have not yet had the opportunity to brief on that specific issue. i certainly would look forward to following up with your office about the steps that we take to verify utilization by that particular portion of employers. >> if you would keep us current on that, i would app

cases not considered a priority will take longer to adjudicate in some cases, considerably longer. however, given the seriousness of the situation on the border, it is the appropriate response for our agency. regardless of the changes for priorities that we are making, our overriding principles will remain that every fact is considered, every application of law is correct and all persons appearing in our courts will receive due process of law. in order to meet its mission, uir must be provided with the ability to staff our courts with the judges and staff the most efficiently processed cases. in 2010, we began an aggressive hiring effort to address the significant rise in case loads and this met with considerable success. unfortunately, sequestration and the funding constraints had a significant impact on our operations, increasing the number of cases pending adjudication and extending case dockets into the future. this appropriations act included funds enabling them to lift the hiring freeze and we began a hiring effort to fill vacant positions nationwide, including at least 30 ne

i mean, how long does it take to go through the adjudication process. let's first talk for the expedited procedures for mexicans and then i want to talk about other than mexicans. >> my understanding of expedited removal it's immediate. virtually immediate for people that come in. >> if there's 20% that are basically mexican which is expedited procedures, 20% of 57,000 is roughly 10,000, right? >> yeah. 10 to 11,000. why we only deported 1700. >> the number of 11,000 the border patrol executed from an experiod dited removal standpoint. under the expedited removal rosees you have to determine a couple of things. >> so how long does that take to determine a couple of things. >> under expedited removal it's very quick. kit be the same day. >> so, again, if 20% of the 57,000 unaccompanied children are mexican, subject to those expedited procedures it could be the same day how come we only deported what is it senator mccain, 1700? when the number is closer to 10 or 11,000. >> i think the number that i was quoting was from the south central american countries

was laughing at me, about was health care, adjudication. and so that is getting better. the va had recently opened an office for complementary in alternative care looking at things like riding as therapy. i hope there will call. i would love to talk to them about it. we are working with the department of defense at walter reed teaching writing there. we are not therapists. we are riders. but therapists there are using riding is the tool in a program that i wrote. so the department of defense gets it. i'm not sure that the va has yet, but hopefully they will. >> any other questions? >> first, i would like to think you for telling your story. recently a retired marine going through a lot of things the you have gone through every time the lead here i am not alone. so much more reassuring for me to go on the next. i would also like to thank you. i did not know that you were part of -- you were heading up the writing program. definitely received a lot from that personally. thank you. we have a thing. it's all about getting some. from the day you

that was adjudication. and so that is getting better. the v.a. has recently opened an office for complimentary and alternative care, so they're looking at things like writing as therapy. i hope they'll call. i'd love to talk to them about it. we're working with the d. of defense at -- the department of defense at walter reed teaching writing there and -- we're not therapists, we're writers in the writing project, but the therapists there are using writing as a tool and a program that i wrote. so the can dod gets it, the d. of defense gets it. v.a., i'm not sure they've gotten it yet, but hopefully they will. any other questions? yep. >> first, i'd like to thank you for telling your story. as a recently-retired marine who has gone through a lot of things that you've gone through, every time that i hear that i'm not alone, it's so much more reassuring for me to go on to the next day. i'd also like to thank you -- i didn't know that you were part of, you were heading up the writing program over at walter reed. i've definitely, definitely received a

court and i think that those folks are better served there until they can be -- their case can be adjudicated so the officers don't have to keep dealing with them. there are certain people we've arrested time after time and i know i've been on the phone with many members of the board about what can with do about this person and that person, and they've been arrested time and time again, oftentimes at the same place, which is very frustrating for the reportees and officers so my opinion is to say the system in place is not broken, no need to fix it, we dwoent have a jail over crowding issue. >> thank you for being here. i apologize that you have to come back here given [inaudible] but now that you're here, i want to ask the question, so i think the way the original home detention program and em program was written, i think i had some concerns, but with the amendments, specifically that if the da objects to the sheriff referral it would overturn, i guess the potential for the inmate to go into home detention em. and it if then the sheriff objects to that it would go to the court. i know that's

i mean, how long does it take to go through the adjudication process. let's first talk for the expedited procedures for mexicans and then i want to talk about other than mexicans. >> my understanding of expedited removal it's immediate. virtually immediate for people that come in. >> if there's 20% that are basically mexican which is expedited procedures, 20% of 57,000 is roughly 10,000, right? >> yeah. 10 to 11,000. why we only deported 1700. >> the number of 11,000 the border patrol executed from an experiod dited removal standpoint. under the expedited removal rosees you have to determine a couple of things. >> so how long does that take to determine a couple of things. >> under expedited removal it's very quick. kit be the same day. >> so, again, if 20% of the 57,000 unaccompanied children are mexican, subject to those expedited procedures it could be the same day how come we only deported what is it senator mccain, 1700? when the number is closer to 10 or 11,000. >> i think the number that i was quoting was from the south central american countries

this means that these cases will go to the front of the line for adjudication, and immigration judges will be assigned to make sure these cases are heard promptly and ahead of all others. while in most cases there are already sufficient number of immigration judges assigned to hear regular detain ed cases, w will be assigning a significant number of judges to bring to a priority the other cases i mentioned, unaccompanied children and adults who arrive with children in recent weeks. this change has consequences for the broader immigration court case load, cases not considered a priority will take longer to adjudica adjudicate. however, given the seriousness of the situation along the border, it is the appropriate response by our agency, a part of the all hands on deck response that you mentioned, mr. chairman. the utmost priority for every case, however, will remain that every fact is considered and every application of law is correct and that people appearing before our immigration judges receive due process of law. we will do these cases quickly, but we will do them right. in order t

you want to speed up the adjudication. do not do it with the premise of starting likely go -- like we do with canada. make the determination whether they are at asylum or and choose deportation. that is the premise they start with. the law requires now that you start with the premise, that they have the right to and not automatic asylum but the right to asylum and they have to please that. if we are still in the mentality that we are expediting to support, then it is a different game. >> i want to make sure we go back to a discussion about a debate going on on capitol hill. you are the cochairman of the .ongressional caucus what conversations are you your leadership in terms of where we draw the line in the sand on what democrats should or should not when a piece of legislation ultimately comes to not grantthat would this money or grant only certain conditions? >> two points. one is the administration, the president and the white house. what we did with our paper intensive supplemental was to provide a guide over congress

i don't know there was an adjudication of whether the question of rahaim violated the ordinance. i don't know why they a judidated the question if other employees had violated the ordinance and the referral was exclusively on this question, but nevertheless the question before you is whether director rahaim violated or not violated the ordinance willfully, so it requires either personal involvement or if there's circumstantial evidence you could deduce he was involved or not involved that's what you have to consider, but the question whether his employees violated the ordinance that is not before you. it's relevant whether it relates to whether director rahaim violated or not violated the ordinance willfully. >> we have been here before and a referral and i am seeing a audience member that referenced it and appropriate referral and now we're having this conversation and arguably while interesting and has bearing i'm not sure we're getting to the overall cause of this situation which i want to get to after we talk through this. >> right. i can only tell you that i don't know why i

we can adjudicate quickly.hat they are not victims of human trafficking or something like that. then i think a three or four-day turn around can be done. perhaps some judges are needed for that. and for way less than the president is asking, we could put them all on a first class plane ride back to their native cities and return them to their families, and we can do that for far less than the president is asking. >> and a major front for that crisis on the border is texas. shirley is calling in from texas on the independent line. go ahead. >> caller: good morning. i've got two questions. first of all, i'd like to give kudos for taking care of these children because of false information, regardless of who it came from. but my main question is, if you're going to give border patrol, 2.7, or 1 billion, it doesn't matter. what we need is to know how that money is going to be spent and how well it's going to contain that border. and i'd like for to you answer that. and i'd also like to find out how soon these childr

i hope it's not pie in the sky like the adjudication process is. and it sounds like we're going to be keeping some people for a long time. as far as education, health care, i've got to see it on paper, so we truly can provide the money it's going to take. but the biggest deterrent is, if they come to this country, they're going to be sent back. >> the children in our care in 2011, it was about 75 days that it took for placement with a sponsor that we believed was safe, and appropriate. and several weeks ago, we started a pilot for the group of children we feel we can place most quickly. and the variables are about cost, number one, the amount of children coming across the border. number two, the amount and type of beds, what we have to pay for them. and number three, the speed in which we can appropriately place. >> and quickly, you don't have any props with congressmen showing up and looking at facilities in their districts or their states unannounced? >> with regard to the question of visiting the facilities, we welcome members of congress to vis

we think there needs to be a faster process to adjudicate the claims. it's going to take more resources. and we're happy to sea over the weekend the administration is thinking about how to have in-country assessments like in honduras. so i hope there will be a resolution that addresses the concerns of these kids and getting their claims properly adjudica adjudicated. >> and back a bill by 300 -- if this went through. but really seems as though it's an uphill climb in the republican-controlled house. why back something that may never see the light of day. >> what we're seeing is a resolution for the president to act on this. the president has authority, legal authority by congress that says if you find in the national interest to allow anyone who is a noncitizens to sefb in the military. whether it's language or necessary other skills, then the president has authority to say then people can enlist. i think what we're focus -- not so much on congress and congress has done nothing pretty much on anything on immigration. the president can do a lot. i think

the case who don't necessarily seem qualified to be adjudicating that.hose themes across all different schools? >> definitely. some schools the administrators don't know what sexual assault it. . we're having people making findings about who is being held responsible but they're not being properly trained across the board. >> olivia, you've been reporting on this and it seems to me this -- obviously there's been sexual assault on campus for a long time, and very high levels of it i would even dare say. the issue has broken out, i would say, in the past 12 months. what do you think is driving that? >> i think social media plays a really big role. i think the more that you see survivors come forward and share their stories like anna did, the more other survivors look at that and say, okay, i can come forward. i don't need to keep this a secret anymore. >> it reminds me of when i covered the catholic church and the allegations -- allegations -- pattern of sexual misconduct, sexual abuse of minors in the church which was the same thing. there was a shame and

they will go to the front of the line for adjudication. speak, what percentage of children meet the adjudication process, are sent home? what percentage stay in the u.s. currently? with thet familiar numbers as to how many children are actually sent home. that is a dhs priority or function. [indiscernible] the actual numbers of how many are sent home, i would differ to secretary johnson. >> secretary johnson, do most of the children after adjudication stay in this country? >> up until the recent situation, the average pace at which unaccompanied children were deported was something like 1800 a year. >> and how many stayed? thousands? >> eventually if there is a final order of deportation and they have gone through the process, they should be returned to their home countries. we have done that at a rate of about 1800 a year. part of this request is so that we can accelerate that process so that more are returned, given the current situation. >> i'm going to start with you, jeh johnson. 433 million are slated to go through custom and border

he wrote last year, this is what he said -- quote -- "the uscis adjudications officers are pressured to rubber stamp application instead of conducting diligent case review and investigation." close quote. this is the officers saying that their bosses are pressuring them to just rubber stamp applications right now, not to investigate, not to ask questions, just to prove them. it goes on -- quote -- "the culture at uscis encourages all applications to be approved. discouraging proper investigation into red flags and discouraging the denial of any applications, uscis has been turned into an approval machine." close quote. that's what the top uscis officer said last fall. they have been turned into an approval machine. no wonder the american people are unhappy with what goes on here. does anyone really know how serious this is? it's amazing that we would -- we would undermine the very integrity, really, of the entire process, and that's why they have protested. that's why they have come forward. it hurts them. they feel bad to see the great law of the united states being routinely evisce

we want to process and adjudicate these children and folks that have poured across the border in a very expeditious back to the fashion. lou: now you have about six days poor going on recess, the house. and within that time do you believe the speaker will put this legislation up for a vote? >> if we can come to an agreement within our conference because this is something that probably house republicans are going to have to move on our own. remember, the president was an agreement that the need for change in the legislation for the 2008 trafficking victim's protection act and decided that the left got to him that he would not want that amended. we are hoping that if we can get agreement with in our conference to get to the numbers we need to that we will lead, we will exercise a plan that will first and foremost secure this border and make sure that these children are dealt with compassionately and return to to their homeland in a way that will secure us and their protection, i think, going forward also. but that is going to take a change in ala. that is going to take some amount of mone

adjudications officers are pressured to rubberstamp applications instead of conducting diligent case review and investigations." saying theirfficer are pressuring them to rubberstamp applications right now. the culture at uscis encourages all applications to the approved. discouraging proper investigation into red flags and discouraging the denial of any applications. uscis has been turned into an approval machine." top cis officer said in a statement last fall. they have been turned into an approval machine. no wonder the american people are unhappy. does anyone really know how serious this is? it is amazing that we would undermine the very integrity of the entire process. that is why they protested. that is why they have come forward. it hurts them. they feel bad to see the great law of the united states being routinely eviscerated. he went on to say this, "uscis has created an almost enter the mountable -- almost insurmountable bureaucracy that prevents adjudication officers from contacting and coordinating with ice agents who know something about these people perhaps, and officer

there's a process in place for adjudicate ugh the concerns -- adjudicating the concerns that have been raised about fraud in that election, and we're encouraged -- we're encouraging both candidates and supporters to allow that process to work its way through. to all of these claims or concerns that have been raised can be examined and adjudicated so that both sides can respect the outcome of this process. >> josh, israel seems to be escalating quickly, air raids this tel aviv and up to 40,000 calls for a possible ground invasion in gaza. what is the u.s. doing to calm the situation, and is there any effort to negotiate a ceasefire between hamas and israel? >> well, let me start by saying that we strongly condemn the continuing rocket fire into israel and the deliberate targeting of civilians by terrorist organizations in gaza. no country can accept rocket fire aimed at civilians, and we support israel's right to defend itself against these vicious attacks. at the same time, we appreciate the call that prime minister net an ya hue himself -- netanyahu has made himself publicly to act re

was laughing at me, about was health care, adjudication. and so that is getting better. the va had recently opened an office for complementary in alternative care looking at things like riding as therapy. i hope there will call. i would love to talk to them about it. we are working with the department of defense at walter reed teaching writing there. we are not therapists. we are riders. but therapists there are using riding is the tool in a program that i wrote. so the department of defense gets it. i'm not sure that the va has yet, but hopefully they will. >> any other questions? >> first, i would like to think you for telling your story. recently a retired marine going through a lot of things the you have gone through every time the lead here i am not alone. so much more reassuring for me to go on the next. i would also like to thank you. i did not know that you were part of -- you were heading up the writing program. definitely received a lot from that personally. thank you. we have a thing. it's all about getting some. from the day you

. >> when the president unilaterally deferred adjudication for childhood arrivals in 2012, you knew at that point that something was going to give. >> if that is driving -- if deferred adjudication or deferred action was driving this, why wouldn't we see kids show up from mexico. we've seen no real increase of kids showing up from mexico. >> no, you do -- >> well, not -- >> his point was exactly right. 38,000 people last month in the rio grande valley, and that is an overwhelming number. >> wait, 38,000 let's be clear. who were apprehended. >> correct. because they're not trying to evade. >> that's right. but that's the whole point, is that -- >> they're holding their hands in the air. >> if i could -- >> i want to make that clear, because i want you and i to disagree on the facts of the matter here, i feel that's been getting lost a little bit, when people talk about border security. what is happening at the border, is that people are going to border patrol agents, right? just so we're clear, there's not masses of people sneaking through and getting by people, it is precisely the pres

want to speed up the adjudication process? >> to speed it up so that love does not exist and send a message exploited by traffickers to play on people's fears and hopes but once they get to the country they will stay for some number of months or stretching in two years so those cases can be up but there is an expanded process of hearings and an expanded process of the marx petitions process. >> so you say the goal is to send a message to the smugglers so that they no longer send children to america on a company. again i'm just trying to focus in on what the goal in that case be to stop the flow? >> i think the goal is to contribute to conditions that no longer serve as incentives to the flow. the principle cause i believe is not the miss of the impression that although spread by these unscrupulous trafficking groups but the critical driver is violence. if you look at the places of origin of the children that have calm as part of this 52,000 this fiscal year and you look at the levels of violence in the areas those are the most

. >> what is being adjudicated in that court date? i mean, so this has also been unclear to me throughout this. the process happens, unaccompanied minor, let's say, without a mother there, is put into hhs custody, or is reunited with a family member living in the united states. given a court date. what is the case brought before the adjudicating entity when that court date happens? what is the case being made? >> well, it depends on what the child is eligible for. for example, there will be children who have asylum claims. there will be children who may be processed as special immigrant juveniles. there will be, unfortunately, victims of trafficking. so the courts are going to determine exactly what it is that the child has suffered, if they have suffered, and if they have the appropriate protections are going to be offered. >> leslie holman from the american immigration lawyers association. thank you for bringing clarity to this. it's been confusing me throughout. >> i'm happy to do so. anything we can do to protect these children is

they peel that the adjudication is taking way too long because the courts don't have enough resources and it is taking forever to get to most cases. i think that's a real like within. >> good article. i want to -- i had our brain room pull research for me. as of january 2013, regarding children who live in the u.s. and who have -- always been in the u.s., and parents have been in the u.s., et cetera. you can -- 138,149 are homeless. 18 years and younger. as of january 2013. according to the usda in 2012, we are talking about children with households with children, 10% suffer from food insecurity. they are not sure if they will food to eat. that's people who are here. >> right. right. so this is part of the compelling argument against bringing more folks in. the borders being flooded right now with children. we have to pay for them. we have to take care of them. that's why you have a lot of folks that are not going to be thrilled with executive action that may allow more people to stay and maybe encourage more people to flood the boarders because of our much more generous executive act

we need to adjudicate them as quickly as possible but when plane loads and buses pull back into their towns, they'll understand you're not going to risk your child on a 1,500-mile journey under the control of drug cartels and abuse that takes place not to be able to stay there. >> you bring up a good point about the fact that you are right about desperation. that's been going on for decades. what is it that has changed it? thank you for bringing that up. i want you to listen to the white house spokesperson, josh earnest, when asked about this today. >> after an individual has gone through the removal proceedings and an immigration judge concluded they do not have a legitimate claim for humanitarian relief, we would like the secretary of homeland security to have the authority to use his discretion in some cases to act quickly to remove those individuals back to their home country. >> that's an interesting statement, is it not, from mr. earnest? he's actually agreeing with republicans i think. >> slowly the white house is coming around to the reality of what's taking place on their bor

this means that these cases will go to the front of the line for adjudication, and immigration judges will be assigned to make sure these cases are heard promptly and ahead of all others. while in most cases there are already sufficient number of immigration judges assigned to hear regular detain ed cases, w will be assigning a significant number of judges to bring to a priority the other cases i mentioned, unaccompanied children and adults who arrive with children in recent weeks. this change has consequences for the broader immigration court case load, cases not considered a priority will take longer to adjudica adjudicate. however, given the seriousness of the situation along the border, it is the appropriate response by our agency, a part of the all hands on deck response that you mentioned, mr. chairman. the utmost priority for every case, however, will remain that every fact is considered and every application of law is correct and that people appearing before our immigration judges receive due process of law. we will do these cases quickly, but we will do them right. in order t

the bill that stalled would upset even more and allow for much faster adjudication. murder rate is a huge incentive. if i was in guatemala and i had a child, i would probably listen to the smugglers who were exaggerating what the small change to the dream act -- which is a republican idea -- would do for their kids. >> it is a human tragedy. thank you all for being with us. we will see you again next week. " is alitical capital production of bloomberg television. ♪ ♪ >> he's been called the startup whisperer. reid hoffman is the executive chairman of linkedin and an investor in some of the most successful companies of all time, including facebook. he was on track to be an entrepreneur. a student of philosophy, hoffman at one point pursued a career in academia. but he took his first job out of school at apple, and then joined the paypal mafia. now a partner at greylock, hoffman sits on seven boards. he is the author of the start up of you, and now a new book, "the alliance."

i hope it's not pie in the sky like the adjudication process is. and it sounds like we're going to be keeping some people for a long time. as far as education, health care, i've got to see it on paper, so we truly can provide the money it's going to take. but the biggest deterrent is, if they come to this country, they're going to be sent back. >> the children in our care in 2011, it was about 75 days that it took for placement with a sponsor that we believed was safe, and appropriate. and several weeks ago, we started a pilot for the group of children we feel we can place most quickly. and the variables are about cost, number one, the amount of children coming across the border. number two, the amount and type of beds, what we have to pay for them. and number three, the speed in which we can appropriately place. >> and quickly, you don't have any props with congressmen showing up and looking at facilities in their districts or their states unannounced? >> with regard to the question of visiting the facilities, we welcome members of congress to vis

there is adjudication process they are supposed to go to. to deport them per se but to determine who has legal standing to be here. some of them will have legal standing and we should say to them become americans. >> mary katharine, can i break it to you gently? it's never going to happen. there is 100,000 of them. >> they are rational beings. >> they can't do it. you can't even get a driver's license. go on in and try to take the test. you are going to adjudicated 100,000 children to see if they have been raped or gangs trying to kill them. they are here. they are probably going to stay here. >> at least honor that and try that before do away with the entire process. >> do it ain't working. what the solution to this is we have to accept the 100,000 that are here. try to figure out who they're and where they came from. but we have to stop it now. >> i think that's one of the ways you stop it is put them through the process. >> mary katharine is right. bill, we have criminals in this country we put them in court. what do you want to do send t

. >> these cases will go to the front of the line in the immigration process and adjudication judgesl be assigned to ensure these cases are heard promptly and ahead of all others. this change has consequences for the broader immigration case load, cases not considered a priority will take longer to adjudicate, however given these seriousness of the situation along the border it is the proper response by our agency. >> ifill: yesterday, president obama asked congress for $3.7 billion in emergency funding to address the crisis. the money would go to detention, care-giving, and court facilities, but republicans sounded doubtful. house speaker john boehner said the request doesn't address the main issue: >> if we don't secure the border, nothing's going to change. and if you look at the president's request, it's all more about continuing to deal with the problem. we've got to do something about sealing the border and ending this problem so that we can begin to move on with the bigger question of immigration reform. >> ifill: the president traveled from denver to dallas today for a long-p