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Migrant Kid Influx an 'Administration-Made Disaster'

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The White House is asking Congress for more money to address the surge of migrant children crossing the Mexican border without their parents.
    
Calling it an "urgent humanitarian situation," President Barack Obama is seeking $1.4 billion in extra funding to help temporarily house, feed, and transport tens of thousands of children caught trying to cross the border illegally.

"All of these things are contributing to the sense of urgency," Obama's director of domestic policy, Cecilia Munoz, said. "These are children who have gone through a harrowing experience alone. We're providing for their proper care."

The government estimates as many as 60,000 children, mostly from Central America, could be apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border this year.

Republican lawmakers, however, are blaming the influx the administration's lax enforcement of immigration law.

"The recent surge of children and teenagers from Central America showing up at our Southern border is an administration-made disaster," Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said.

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