Are Republicans Willing To Pay For Border Security? Or Is It Whistle Dixie?

Obama's border migrant-crisis funding request faces tough path on Capitol Hill. "Hours after the Obama administration requested $3.7 billion in emergency funding to address the current child immigration crisis at the southern border, few on Capitol Hill were predicting speedy passage — if at all — of legislation to provide Obama with the money he has requested. Instead, the conventional wisdom on the Hill among both Democrats and Republicans is the same as it has been for any number of issues this year — from minimum wage, to unemployment extension, to any number of jobs bills: probably not going to happen." Wesley Lowery in The Washington Post.

U.N. urges U.S. to treat migrant children as refugees. "People who enter the U.S. and nearby countries illegally from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras should not be forced to return home and should be treated as refugees, a U.N. agency says. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees says people from those countries are subject to persecution....The call from the U.N. echoes statements made in the spring, when the refugee agency released 'Children on the Run,' a report that cited interviews with migrant children who had crossed international borders to flee violence. This week, the U.S. and its neighbors will hold meetings in Nicaragua to discuss 'updating a 30-year-old declaration regarding the obligations nations have to aid refugees,' the AP says." Bill Chappell in NPR.

Obama will visit Perry, but not the border. What will they discuss? "President Barack Obama will meet Texas Governor Rick Perry on Wednesday to discuss a surge of Latin American young people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border that has put the two leaders at odds with each other. Perry's office welcomed the meeting, to take place in Dallas on the governor's turf, in a Tuesday statement that said they would discuss the humanitarian and national security crises along the southern border....But the White House said he would not visit the border, a sign that officials do not see a political upside." Mark Felsenthal and Jon Hershkovitz in Reuters.