WASHINGTON WEEK

WASHINGTON WEEK

WITH GWEN IFILL

FRIDAY, JULY 11 @ 9:00PM

This Week: Immigration Crisis, Middle East Tensions, U.S.-Germany Spying

The influx of unaccompanied immigrant children has become a burgeoning humanitarian crisis on the Texas border with Mexico. This week President Obama asked Congress for nearly $4 billion in emergency funds to address the child refugee crisis but added that the long-term answer would be to pass a year-old bipartisan Senate bill overhauling the immigration system. Republicans said they would consider the president’s request if it included amending a 2008 law that bars the immediate deportation of unaccompanied minors from countries other than Canada or Mexico.

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