Obama Urges Congress to Act on Border Request, Presses Perry
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President Barack Obama pleaded with Congress to immediately pass an emergency funding request to deal with a flood of migrant children at the U.S. border and urged Texas Governor Rick Perry to pressure fellow Republicans to get it done.
The president sought cooperation today from an unlikely ally in Perry, a Republican and outspoken critic of Obama’s immigration policies who is a potential contender for his party’s presidential nomination in 2016. The two men held a face-to-face talk during a 15-minute helicopter ride and then together attended a meeting with state and local officials and religious groups dealing with the influx.