“President Obama is requesting almost $4 billion in emergency funding from Congress to confront an immigration crisis from a wave of unaccompanied children surging across the southern border of the United States, White House officials said Tuesday.

The financial request, which is almost twice as much as initial reports had suggested might be necessary, would boost spending on border patrol agents, immigration judges, aerial surveillance, and new detention facilities. Nearly half of the money would be used to improve care for the children while they are moved through the deportation process.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from Michael Shear / NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/09/us/obama-seeks-billions-for-children-immigration-crisis.html