Immigration News: Obama Administration Reiterates Undocumented Children Will Be Deported

The Obama administration reiterated on Monday that most undocumented unaccompanied children detained by Border Patrol on the U.S border with Mexico so far in 2014, will be deported. The President will ask Congress for more than $2 billion today to address the urgent humanitarian crisis involving minors along the U.S. border with Mexico. The issue has become of increasing importance to the administration as borders have been flooded with unaccompanied minors in recent months.

President Obama is preparing to travel to Texas this week, however, he is not expected to acutally visit the deportation centers. "The president is very aware of the situation that exists on the southwest border," said White House spokesman Josh Earnest. "Senior administration officials, from the secretary of Homeland Security, the secretary of HHS, even some senior White House officials, have traveled in the last several weeks to the southwest border. What they have seen is troubling."

Josh Earnest said Monday during a press conference Tuesday that Obama will send Congress a formal request for $ 2 billion in emergency funds to stem the crisis and accelerate deportations. Senior Administration officials, including the head of national security, Jeh Johnson, have said that children will be deported and asked parents of Central American children not to send their children to the United States because they will not be permitted entry and will be repatriated. The number of arrests has reached 46,000, and the White House has said that all children apprehended are in deportation proceedings.