cornyn: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from texas, the assistant republican whip. mr. cornyn: mr. president, reserving the right to object, the president has called the crisis at the border a humanitarian crisis. if that's not an emergency, i don't know what is. but as a result of the majority leader's refusal to allow us to offer any constructive suggestions to reform the law to stop this flow of humanity across our borders and actually solve the problem, the supplemental has now fallen to a budget point of order. likewise in this unanimous consent request to fund iron dome and wildfires exceeds the budget caps and the border patrol act and it's subject to a budget point of order. therefore, i object. the presiding officer: the objection is heard. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i'm, frankly, not surprised that this objection has been made. it's too bad. but i ask unanimous consent the senate now proceed to the consideration of ca

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cornyn: mr. president, i would say to the distinguished senior senator from arizona that it's -- the administration has been sending mixed messages. first they call this a humanitarian crisis. then they called it i think the senator said a situation. they're sort of walking this back. but i just want to remind my colleagues from arizona what -- what the president said a few years ago in el paso when people said, we need better border security measures in place. he ridiculed people. you may remember this. he said -- this is the president talking in el paso in may 2011. he said, "you know, they said we needed to triple the border patrol. or now they're going to say we need to quadruple the border patrol. or they'll have a higher fence. or maybe they'll need a moat. or maybe they want alligators in the mot moat. they'll never be satisfied. i understand that, he said, that's politics. but the truth, is the measures we put in place are getting results." the truth is, mr. president, they are not gettin

we don't have the language on the cornyn/cueller bill yet. i look at this from a humanitarian p humanitarian perspective. i look at the kids, and the history we stitched together. charges fly around when there are waves of immigrants coming into the country. you had somebody on your show the other day from honduras. i listened to the show and, my goodness, from a humanitarian standpoint, how can we do anything but to make a home for these children temporarily? to send them back means to sen s them to death. if you say to tens of thousands of children, come in, we're going to spare you from that. what happens to other children down there? do their parents say, do they decide, it's worth making this treacherous journey through mexico, maybe sending up dead on the way? do we have hundreds, thousands of kids dying to try to get the same treatment? >> absolutely. it's not an easy issue. i had senator menendez on on the morning show, which i invite you on. 10:00 a.m., 7:00 a.m. pacific time. senator menendez said we as a country will take positions

the top democrat in the house is now against the cornyn/cuellar proposal. the president met with the hispanic caucus. they're united against it because one of their members happens to be henry cuellar. we are quickly learning where most everyone in the democratic party stands on this new proposal other than the white house, though. we have heard from unnamed sources in the white house, we have not officially heard from them whether or not they will back this plan. would the president support it if it means getting republicans to vote for the money that he badly needs to fix this crisis? if he does do that, will there be a democratic revolt? what is the white house's thinking in all this? what we're seeing right now is the merger of a humanitarian crisis and raw politics. it's not pretty. if we're going to get answers on this, they're going to come through the political process. these are the realities we're all looking at right now. joining us right now is david knack camora. i appreciate you taking a few moments tonight. i want to play you a sound byte tha

cornyn: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i object. the presiding officer: objection is heard. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i would propose to the senator from new hampshire an alternative and just before i do that i would just say that the biggest problem we have is the inability for the senate to process amendments in the normal order. and i believe the senator from new hampshire is sympathetic to that. if we would just have an opportunity to offer and vote on amendments, i have every confidence that this piece of legislation would have been long passed. but somehow we're stuck and i.t. no-- and it's not just the minority party that's limited to offer ideas. it's even our friends who are in the majority. i can only imagine what it is like to feel like i'm in the majority and i can't even get votes on my amendments or my legislation passed. so i would ask unanimou i ask us consent that the only amendments the senate will come to order in order

take senator cornyn.ed a lecture from a man who refuses to even see the crisis firsthand. back when the president visited in 2011, cornyn spokesesman said what the senator is looking for president obama cannot deliver with another speech or photo op. that's presidential leadership. they criticize whether he goes to the border or not. >> imagine that. >> i sort of wonder if the president shouldn't have just gone to deny senator cornyn and senator cruz and rick perry the ability to have the talking point. here is where the analogy breaks down. president bush wasn't in trouble because he did the flyover. the response was disastrous. the president has been responding in a full-floated way to . amassing the resources of the united states government which means the where he is or not. the important thing is to get the response right. >> you're right, dana. i was in katrina. the response was inadequate. he said, brownie, you're doing a good job when he did land. thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you. >>

to that end democratic congressman hen reclay and john cornyn both from texas sped up returning children. >> it's not a one dimensional issue. we can't say border security, border security. >> reporter: many more children are coming with their parents. eric ramirez took her daughter out of honduras fearing she would be raped or killed. when i asked her daughter how she feels about leaving her country she said sad. same adds they were threatening to kill us. as a prelude to his $3.7 billion emergency request, the president is rolling out hard hitting ads targeting central america, urging people not to make the treacherous journey to the united states. texas republican congressman steve stockman an opponent of the emergency funding says a better idea is for the president to save the money by simply doing a photo op. >> he's against photo ops. he should stand by a plane load of people sending back to guatemala and that send as message we mean business. >> reporter: whatever happens in washington it should happen down. while apprehensions are down, he expects that it's only a temporary lull

"what senator cornyn is looking for, president obama cannot deliver with another speech or photo op, and that's presidential leadership. words matter little when there is no action." in fact, there's nothing that conservatives seem to hate more than an obama photo op. >> dress-up day at the white house when doctors in lab coats posed for the president's photo op. did the press take the bait? >> should president obama be doing more than just a photo op in new jersey and one in the war-room? >> the president, he goes for his photo op, he's gone. >> he's using high school now as another photo op and a prop. >> the president is back in the gulf today. whether this is a work trip or photo op remains to be seen. >> conservatives recently seem to have had a change of heart about the utility of photo-friendly visits to the border. >> growing fallout from president obama's decision not to visit the border in texas. >> apparently he doesn't have time to actually go and see the border. he doesn't have time to see the children. >> why doesn't the president go to the texas/mexico border? >> the p

>> and for more now on the immigration impasse inside the beltway border, texas lawmakers senator cornyngressman kuar have a bill for the surge of doundocumented mil eed immig. joining me is bill kristol. let's talk about the attempts to do something before congress goes home for the august so-called -- i guess it's recess or vacation or work, work sessions at home. but don't they have to do something? we saw that senator cornyn and henry trying today to come up with something to have a bipartisan solution. >> hi, andrea. i think the members of congress like you to call it a well-deserved break from the strenuous break. >> what have you they done so far. >> working at least two and a half days a week, you know? i don't know that the legislation goes anywhere but i think the house passes legislation in a week to do what the bill does and amending the 2008 law to allow the u.s. to send back the people to central america after appropriate quick adjudication and hearing. i think the house will appropriate some money for that purpose, not quite the amount that president obama wants and they'l

are you supporting what the representative and john cornyn are talking about introducing? >> i want to see the specifics, but, yeah, we should have expedited procedures. when people come here, they ought to know they're going to be sent back in a safe and compassionate manner but they won't be allowed to stay here. parents need to understand, don't send your kids on that dangerous journey. they're just going to be coming back to you in a week or two. >> senator ron johnson, thank you so much for your time this morning. >> have a great day. >>> we will have much more on the border crisis straight ahead with wendy davis' running mate at the top of the texas ticket for 2014. and later chuck has a tdr 50 look at the billionaires of heartland who influence u.s. politics with more than just money from their home bases in omaha and wichita. but first a look ahead at today's planner. the president is in austin, texas, where he will speak on the economy, and he will tout what he says are some of the accomplish 78ments of the execue orders he has passed. you're watching "the daily r

the cuellar-cornyn humane act, is it a starting spot? >> a starting point.needs to happen, because we're hearing this from both sides of the aisle. the inability to do the job. the can-do america we used to love. we can't support all these people, we can't do this, can't do that. every time we hear what we can't do and have to give lawful status to people who violate our laws. going back to the statement and came from a congressional hearing, they're firing the starter pistols for the would-be runners. >> the unemployment rate in honduras and guatemala significantly lower than our own. el salvador, about the same as ours. the economy is nothing. they're developing economies. violence is actually down according to a dea intelligence report that was leaked today. putting the lie to everything the obama administration initially said about the motivation of these particularly young illegal immigrants. >> don't let the truth get in the way of a narrative. how do you report on a 6.1 unemployment rate, it's like the doctor saying the patients who died doesn't have

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cornyn: if the senator would yield for a unanimous consent request? i would ask that following the remarks of the senator from oregon, that the senator from kansas be recognized and that i be then recognized following that. that nor sanders from vermont would be following me. i would ask unanimous consent for that. the presiding officer: is there objection? mr. wyden: madam president, reserving the right to object, just so i can be clear. so senator cornyn would speak next and then senator sanders would speak after you? the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cornyn: madam president, the unanimous consent would be the senator from oregon, the senator from kansas, the senator from texas and the senator from vermont. mr. wyden: very good. i withdraw my reservation. the presiding officer: without objection. the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: madam president, just very briefly to describe where i think the internet tax debate is, is that we have republicans and democrats objecting to what i happen to think is in the country's national interest

let's hear what senator cornyn and representative cuellar had to say on greta last night. >> sometimes the notice to appear is called among law enforcement professionals a notice to disappear. but it's being called among the migrants, a permiso. they think this is a visa which allows them to stay in the united states, when in fact it is a notice to appear and they never end up appearing. >> right now we've got about 375,000 kids. it takes three to five years to get to those cases. therefore, all that the senator and i are trying to do is to give them a trial date, have them before a judge as soon as possible, give them their asylum, and then after that if they don't show they have those claims, they have to be returned. >> sounds like a practical solution. >> i don't know if it is or not. keep in mind the reason these kids from honduras and guatamala are able to stay here is because in 2008 there is an anti-section trafficking law overwhelmingly passed. who could stand in the way of something like that? if you're from a noncontiguous country, not from mexico or canada, you wind up in t

. >> reporter: democratic congressman henry kwair and john cornyn will introduce legislation to address the crisis. among the things that the humane act recommends is to speed up repateuation of unaccompanied children. the department of homeland security works on family units and pregnant women not as quickly as members of congress would like. >> john roberts on the border, thank you. let's look at this situation from another perspective. brit humans is here. >> they are talking tough about how to stop the flow of illegal immigrant children would do well to talk to some of these kids as i did over the weekend. the first thing realize they come to america out of desperation. their towns and neighborhoods in central america are under the control of the most barbaric drug gangs. they are being ordered to join up or face death. one boy who resisted was badly beaten. another cousin shot to death. they tell parents being extorted to pay the gangs under the threat of their children being murdered. they face similar horrors on the way here under brutal gangs. one girl told me watching a young f

today i stand with senator cornyn, senator cruz, congressman barton and congressman burgess to repeat our stance. texas will not be participating in medicaid expansion. >> would you consider expanding a broken system? of course not. of course not. it's like a drug dealer. you give em your first hit free and then they're hooked for years and years. >> in galveston, on the state's gulf coast -22 percent of the population lives below the poverty line-well above the national average. >> in 2008, hurricane ike devastated the poorest communities here. some people lost everything they had and never fully recovered. >> an eight-foot wall of water flooded this entire part of the island and took this neighborhood, which was historically a very poor neighborhood, and really exacerbated all of the social problems it had to deal with, making the job for st. vincent's house that much more difficult and that much more important. >> okay, what type of appointment did you need? >> st vincent's student-run free clinic in galveston has long been one of the primary healthcare options for low-income resid

ese es el objetivo de la propuesta presentada por el senador republicano john cornyn y el congresistacong. henry cuellar, "todas las protecciones se van a respetar, pero para mí es mejor que un niño no espere tres a cinco años para tener una audiencia que se haga más rápidamente" el proyecto de ley plantea que los niÑos inmigrantes que quieran permanecer en el pas hagan su peticin en un plazo de siete das y que los jueces no tarden ms de 72 horas en decidir su futuro. el caucus hispano del congreso rechaz la iniciativa. s/ cong. luis gutiérrez "nada para justicia para nuestros inmigrantes y más legislación que golpea y amenaza a quitarle derechos a nuestra comunidad" pero sus autores afirmaron que la medida mejorara la actual ley de reautorizacin de proteccin de 2008, que estipula la deportacin inmediata de niÑos mexicanos y canadienses. bajo esta propuesta todos los menores, independienteme nte de donde provengan, seran tratados y repatriados de la misma manera. por su parte, los congresistas republicanos se preparan para hacer sus propias recomendaciones. s/ cong. john boehner "espe

cornyn: mr. president, i'd ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be rescinded. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cornyn: mr. president, before i begin my prepared remarks today, i want to offer my sympathy to the community of spring, texas. last night in this quiet suburban area north of houston, they experienced a horrific murders of six people. it's reported that four of these people who were killed were young people. and as we move forward in the days and weeks ahead, i hope we'll keep these victims and the community in our thoughts and prayers. shifting to a different part of my state that's experiencing another type of crisis. every day this week i've come to the floor and spoken on president obama's refusal to travel to the southern border of texas where a humanitarian crisis continues to unfold. those aren't just my words, those are the president's words -- a humanitarian crisis. as i've said before, the president has been in dallas, he's been in austin, where he spent the

. >> there is a bipartisan plan backed by two texans, republican senator john cornyn and henry cuellar. would speed up putting the children before a judge and then judges have 72 hours to determine what should happen. the idea is trying to speed up the processing of these young people. bipartisan, but the senate's top democrat doesn't like it. >> we're having a briefing tomorrow night at 5:30, all senators briefing on this issue. but from all the reports i've gotten on the legislation, the answer from me is, no, i won't support it. >> but many lawmakers say just giving the president a $3.7 billion check for these children and the southern border doesn't fix the problem. >> thank you, mike. >> maryland run congressman andy harris fought the administration's plans to house illegal immigrants in this army reserve facility in his area. it appears he won that battle. congressman, welcome to the program. good to have you with us. >> good to be with you. >> how did you stop the illegals coming to your constituency. >> when we found out last thursday night that the department of health and hum

republicans like texas senator john cornyn says we need border security, not just what ams to day care. >> we know we need more federal law enforcement presence on the border because now the border patrol is changing diapers rather than interdicting drugs and illegal immigration activities and human trafficking. any federal source should be a temporary stopgap measure. >> a lot of criticism coming at the president today, sandra, for not visiting the border. he will sit down with governor rick perry and some local religious leaders. >> which he wasn't going to do in the first place. >> that's right. he says this is crisis. he is asking congress for all the money. if it was a crisis, wouldn't you go to the border. i understand you don't want to stand next to something you broke. it's a tough, tough visual, because if you don't it looks really bad. >> it was a problem to begin with that turned into a crisis. not only that he is asking for $4 billion. the situation is dire according to him and fellow democrats. he is calling it urgent but yet he won't go to the border. senator john cornyn,

our border is secure. >> as i've been told the cornyn-cuellar issue covers other issues. had we done comprehensive immigration reform we wouldn't have this issue. everyone here, the border is secure. martin heinrich talked to the caucus today. he is, border state senator. he said he can say without any equivocation that the border is secure. >> wow. reid's comments, mystifying, syndicated columnist charles krauthamer. >> when you get harry reid saying border is secure. >> definitely. >> you have to wonder whether he is on medication or not. that is so detached from reality. >> then there is this. the pope, pope francis is weighing in on what our country is doing with its democracy, if you can believe it on this issue. the pontiff is calling for urgent intervention to protect tens of thousands of children who cross the border themselves. the pope is weighing in. tucker? >> well, i'm as an after individual protestant i will take a pass on pope thing. if he is weighing in on humanitarian crisis, good for him. i think that his role. >> we're supposed to be beacon for around t

republican senator john cornyn and democratic representative, henry cuellar, want to get rid of that hearing, except in certain cases. >> we are trying to find a solution and we are trying to roll up our sleeves and basically, you know, how do we stem the wave of humanity that's coming over to the u.s. and how do we make sure that we treat the kids with care, but at the same time, stem this wave coming in? >> we want to make sure all these -- all unaccompanied children are treated exactly the same, the children from central america are treated the same way as kids coming over from mexico and canada, make sure if they do have a colorable claim to some immigration relief, say asylum, the victim of human trafficking, they have the opportunity if they wanted to present that to a judge, an immigration judge on a timely basis. >>> ahead in the newsroom, i will talk with representative cuellar about the bill he is proposing. that's about 90 minutes from now, right here in the newsroom. as you might expect that bill has an uphill battle in both the house and the senate. >>> in 12 days, lawma

sponsored by republican senator john cornyn and henry kwair, make judges decide their cases within three day, adding up to 48 immigration jumps to do so but unclear how much those 40 jumps could actually do to alleviate the crisis in the courts, given that the current 243 immigration judges nationwide are facing a backlog of more than 375,000 cases. these are all questions to be hashed out, and there is plenty of hashing to do. as white house officials prepare to meet tomorrow with members of the congressional hispanic caucus, some democrats are far from sold on the humanity of the humane act. democratic congressman luis gutierrez issued a scathing statement blasts the ash text of the bill "senator cornyn led the opposition to every single immigration reform proposal he has ever seen and is exploiting children, wrapping himself in a thin blanket of feigned compassion and he has gotten a democrat to stand with him." this is not the middle ground. this is the deportation-only agenda dressed up in sheep the clothing." and this afternoon, senate majority leader harry reid said he is a, no, o

now we see senator john cornyn and henry quay area introducing a humane act. it would change the 2008 law signed by president bush that treats all unaccompanied children crossing the border the same. that's the changes they want. kids coming here would go before a judge within seven days of being screened by the department of health and human services, it authorizes up to 40 new judges to do that. do you support the bill? >> no. look, clearly we have a crisis. it's a crisis of citizens security and central america. it's something i've been talking about for several years that cut into latin america central america at the time in which central american countries weak in nature, generally poor. honduras the murder capital. the other two the fifth largest in terms of homicide in their country, drug trafficking, gangs, and human smugglers. you have parents that ultimately say to themselves i take my 8-year-old and send them on a 2,000 mile journey. if they stay they'll most certainly die. at least they have a -- this is a refugee crisis. they're trying to undermin

in is john cornyn sending the message to the president. >> president obama evidently needs a wake-up call. and visiting the border and learning firsthand about the severity and causes of this ongoing crisis will be that wake-up call. again, i urge the president to visit the border this week during his fundraising trip to texas. >> david, what has the white house said about why the president will not be going to the board ensure. >> yesterday josh, the press secretary, pointed out a number of high level administration officials including home land security secretary jay johnson paid more than one visit down there. health and human services. >> they're not the president. >> they're not the president absolutely. they're saying the president is well versed and understands. that's why he's making the big request. it's a political problem right now. you saw last night the white house add to the schedule a hastily put together with religious leaders and local officials. they've invited governor rick perry who has been critical of the president for not going to the border and ignoring the pr

, john cornyn saying basically too many of the kids don't show up in court. that remains a significant problem. and jeff flake, the senator from arizona saying among other things that too much of the money, in fact the bulk of the money, $1.8 would be spent on caring for the unaccompanied children. they largely insist the problem that need to be fixed is sealing the boarder before they deal with all these other impacts. >> and to the, again the white house response to this request for the president to show up at the border by some. their stance is the president is well aware of what is happening there. he's looking at concrete ideas, specific actions that can be taken. it's interesting, peter, i think a lot of people and supporters of the president are wondering why this administration is not hitting harder on the republicans in the house who held up legislation for more than a year that passed in the senate focussing in on border security. >> reporter: i think that's right. for a long time i think the white house was convinced that house republicans were the

meanwhile, bipartisan legislation co-sponsored by texas senator john cornyn and streamlined to turn morempanied minors away at the border as harry reid refuses to call a vote. president obama has called on congress to approve before leaving on august recess friday. for more health care and schooling for illegal minors and their families. back to you, sean. >> katie, thank you for that report. >> she'll be joining us here at the table in just a minute. now let's bring in immigration attorney francisco hernandez to debate the president's handling of this border crisis. this 2008 provision, francisco, is very simple to fix. it was designed to prevent sex trafficking of kids from central america. i think its intent was right. but we treat kids from mexico differently than central america. they can be sent back immediately. is that something that you think the president should do right away or should he bypass congress, forget about separation of powers and co-equal branches of government, and do what they apparently are out there floating to do? >> it's a no win answer, mr. hannity. i'm the

john cornyn robbying for a bipartisan plan. >> we call this the helping unaccompanied minors, or theumane act. it would amekd the act of 2008. that law had good intentions because it was focused on the victims of human trafficking, and we preserve those protections, but it needs to be impro improve ed so that thousands of children who now make this journey up these smuggling [ technical difficulties ] >> that 2008 law that requires that undocumented minors who are not from mexico or canada, the so-called non-contiguous countries that they be given immigration hearings to determine if they should be allowed to stay. some democrats including president obama said they are open to changing the law, but some major democratic leaders are pushing back, among them senator harry reid, who says that law was passed to protect children. it was a bipartisan plan, signed by george w. bush, and he does not plan to change it. >> ran del thank you very much. >>> many of those crossing the border are trying to escape poverty and violence that is plaguing central america. monica has the story. >> repor

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the wrong way to go, i know both men, henry cuellar, john cornyn, good people with good hearts. i just think this is not the best thought out proposal. and would have some terrible unintended consequences for these kids who are fleeing violence right now. remember, these are kids, these are 7-year-olds, these are 11-year-olds, these are people who are leaving a situation that is intolerable by any measure. and by way of comparison, nicaragua, which is the second poorest country in this hemisphere after haiti has sent almost no children. we've seen 2,000 family members in el paso, not one single one of them has come from nicaragua. this is a unique situation to honduras, to guatemala, to el salvador. i think we need to respond accordingly. >> congressman beto o'rourke, it's a pleasure to have you on. thank you very much. >> thank you. appreciate it. >>> all right. today dozens of anti-immigrant protesters showed up in oracle, arizona, just as protesters did earlier this month in murrieta, california, to try and stop bus loads of unaccompanied migrant children they heard would be

but we have seen today a pair of lawmakers, senator john cornyn from texas, a republican, introduce a bill that would speed deportation of these unaccompanied minors somewhere between countless months to nearly a week. so whether that gets passed by congress, whether speaker john boehner will act in some way to address this issue is a matter of debate. >> very quickly, we're running out of time, is that something you would want to see? would you want to see the process for deporting these young people sped up? >> no. that's our concern. under domestic and international law, these children ought to be treated like refugees. unfortunately, republicans are using this as an excuse to attack these children and basically turn their back on children who are fleeing violence and are asking this country to protect them. >> all right. and we got to wrap it up here. igor, very quickly, tell us if you've spoken with jose, does he have an attorney? what is his status? >> i have not spoken to him since he's been placed in detention. he has reached out to "the washington post." he issued a text sayi

to speed up the process republican senator john cornyn and house senate are sending immigration judgesns. their proposal calls for unaccompanied minors to have a preliminary hearing within seven days. they'll be sent home immediately if the judge rules they dmot have special status or do not qualify for asylum. >> this is a roadmap toward a solution. it's not the only roadmap. if someone has a better idea, aisle listen to it. but i will not do is vote for blank check for the president. >> lawmakers are still looking at a $4.3 billion request. >> we would expect bipartisan support for this proposal. what's critical is congress acts quickly to pass it. >> house speaker john boehner says he hopes to have a response to the president's request by the end of the week. craig boswell, cbs news, capitol hill. >>> straight ahead, your wednesday morning weather. >>> and in sports, derek jeter feeling the love at this final all-star game. was drinking ought about the ci having acids. it never dawned on me that it could hurt your teeth. he told me to use pronamel. it's going to help protect the ena

so to speed up deportation, republican senator john cornyn of texas and qualar of texas has offered to send 40 immigration judges to border towns. they call for unaccompanied minors to have a preliminary hearing within seven days and will be sent home immediately if they don't have a special status or qualify for asylum. >> this is a road map toward a solution. it's maybe not the only road map but if somebody has a better idea, we'll listen to it. i will not vote for a blank check for the president. >> lawmakers are still considering that administration request for $3.7 billion to deal with the growing crisis. house speaker john boehner says he hopes to have a response to the president's request by the end of this week. >>> right now, frederick county sheriff chuck jenkins is at the us-mexico border getting a first-hand look at the issue. jenkins is joining a handful of sheriffs across the country. while on the job, they're requiring local police to question the immigration status of folks who might be in this country illegally. >>> the crisis at the border is is stirring up concern at

the bill was introduced by republican john cornyn and democrat henry cuellar but so far it is getting support from the right. many democrats arguing seven days is not enough time for these children to make the case they belong here when they don't speak the language and often don't have legal representation. in fact, i asked the leader of the senate harry reid how he feels about the plan this afternoon, he says he doesn't support it which is troubling sign for the legislation. >> pelley: an interesting development this afternoon, one of the immigration's visible activists jose antonio was detained in texas. he's a pulitzer prize winning journalist. what can you tell us? >> vargas had done to mcallen for a vigil and press conference and when he went to the airport to go home he didn't have a valid u.s. visa and he was detained by customs and border patrol. mcallen is so close to the border that all of the roads and airports out of the city have customs checkpoints and vargas brought to the u.s. from the philippines when he was 12 says he wasn't aware of that when he went there. critics

. >> reporter: today republican senator john cornyn and the senator from texas want to make the deportationrocess even faster. their bill would amend the current law that allows children to go before a judge to hear their cases, something that can keep them here for years, that bill comes as the white house pushes congress to approve the supply meantal appropriation it says is needed to tackle the crisis before congress leaves for august recess. on monday, texas senator ted cruz was in his home state saying that spending measure comes up short. >> almost all of the funding going to things other than border security. and notably the president does nothing to address the underlying problem. he does nothing to address the lawlessness and amnesty that caused this problem. >> we have seen a lot of talk from republicans about how urgent the situation is, but not a lot of action when it comes to acting on a proposal the president has now put forth. >> reporter: a proposal that includes housing the 57,000 unaccompanied minors in the country. today some will arrive here in arizona where hundreds are

bipartisan plan being pushed by two texans, democratic congressman henry kuacul cuella republican john cornyn. >> the concern is its going to double again next year unless we deal with this. >> what we have seen is when congress wants to do something they can act pretty quickly to get it done. >> reporter: far from the capitol the immigration issue divided a small arizona community. some welcoming a few dozen underage immigrants set to be detained there. some not. >> what if one of them is bad. we don't know. >> reporter: but both sides looking to washington for action. republicans have not officially released their plan but it appears they are looking for more policy changes than democrats may be willing to go along with. richard? >> thank you so much for that latest on that report. appreciate it. >>> a pulitzer-prize winning journalist and activist was detained tuesday. jose antonio vargas was taken into custody making his way through security in mcgowan. vargas has lived and worked in the u.s. without legal documentation since his teens. he was on his way to a vigil in support of unaccompa