Obama urges $3.7 billion for border crisis
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama appealed to Congress on Tuesday for $3.7 billion in emergency spending to deal with the immigration crisis on the nation's southern border, where unaccompanied children have shown up by the thousands in a human drama that's causing a political storm in Washington and beyond.
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