House Speaker John Boehner unsure Congress can do anything on border crisis this month [View all]

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Source: Reuters

By Susan Cornwell

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday expressed doubts Congress would agree by the end of this month on an emergency response to the crisis involving an influx of thousands of child migrants at the U.S. southern border.

President Barack Obama, a Democrat, has requested $3.7 billion in emergency funds to bolster border security and speed up deportations. Boehner said the Republican-run House of Representatives had been discussing the matter all week but had not come to any decisions on its response to Obama’s request.

Many Republicans want to use the emergency funding request to change a 2008 law that gives some immigrant children more protections from deportation. They, and Obama, think that the law might be encouraging Central American children to flock to the United States illegally.

Boehner, at his weekly news conference, complained that comments by some Democrats ruling out changes to the 2008 law had made the issue “much more difficult to deal with,” and darkened the outlook for bipartisan agreement.

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