this country those minors are entitled to due process as was quick to point out the u.s. has domestic obligations to asylum seeking children including access to an attorney. the president is being accused of pushing to weaken those protections in a letter asking congress for help the president wrote he needed additional authority to exercise discretion in processing return and removal of unaccompanied minor children from countries where most of the kids are coming from. since the president did not explain what he meant by discretion immigrant aggregates are concerned. earlier i spoke to the domestic policy adviser for the president and point person for immigration reform efforts and i asked her about the criticism coming from immigration rights advocates who say the president is trying to rob the children of due process.