White House requests extra $4.5B from Congress for border crisis

The Hill: The White House on Wednesday asked Congress to allocate an extra $4.5 billion in emergency funding to deal with the crisis along the southern border.
 
The request includes $3.3 billion for humanitarian assistance, which the administration said would be used to increase shelters and care for unaccompanied minors, in addition to processing arrivals. About $1.1 billion would go toward other border operations like expanding the number of detention beds and providing more investigation resources.

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