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there have always been, you know, unaccompanied minors coming across. and the white house does monitor that as does the department of homeland security, as does hhs. the department of justice. all those agencies work together on it. what we saw here and what we ve seen in the last few months is an unprecedented surge and the president, as i said, designated the fema director to really work on the effort to coordinate the government s response to that. it does seem that there s a political price to pay. absolutely clear that the house has done nothing with the senate immigration bill and that has been a major congressional failure. no question about that. and this time last year you know, what a difference a year makes. this time last year we had a bipartisan immigration reform bill that would have added resources to securing the border. and by the way, when it comes to that, we are spending unprecedented resources. we have more boots on the ground at this border than have ever

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