With Congress scrambling to pass a $3.7 billion emergency fund to help cope with the ongoing southern border immigration crisis, experts from the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think-tank, emphasize the importance of increased spending on immigration judges, saying the judicial crisis is the bottleneck of the issue. The president’s funding request heavily focuses on dealing with the consequences caused by the influx of young people. But many in Congress want to know how any new money would address the root causes of the surge of immigrant children.
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