account at the moment as covid relief checks are rolling out with president biden s relief plan now law. the stimulus is a huge help in getting america back to normal after a year of anything but normal. as the president made clear this week in his first prime time address to the american people, while this progress is huge, it does not mean we can lower our guards. if we do this together, by july 4 there is a good chance you, your families, and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or in your understand neighborhood and have a cookout, a barbecue, and celebrate independence day, where we not only mark our independence as a nation but we begin to mark our independence from this virus. as mentioned a moment ago, those $1,400 relief checks are officially rolling out. 85% of eligible households can expect to see a direct deposit by monday. and with public polling in their favor, president biden and vice president harris embark next week on a tour to tout thei
address the crisis, including a pr campaign urging parents not to send their children to the u.s. illegally but for now many of them wind up in federal holding facilities. republican congressman jim brightstein toured one facility in his home state of oklahoma and joins us from tulsa. we spoke with you before your tour yesterday. what did you learn? the stories of human tragedy are verified, a lot of the children quite frankly don t even make it to the united states. the scenario is very bleak. there are parents in the united states that have been smuggled here who are here illegally and they re attempting to get their kids here. in many cases they re paying coyotes who then pay transnational criminal organizations in northern mexico, as your previous story indicated, mexico is a very
still pouring in the u.s. from the obama administration, this new message. those who are coming here illegally, to those contemplating coming here illegally into south texas is we will send you back. that was homeland security secretary jeh johnson stressing the president s goal of hastening deportation to a matter of days. that is not easy. the congress is rebuffing the president s request of nearly $4 billion in crisis aid. and republicans will not approve the money until a key legal loophole is plugged. for now, one thing most politicians agree on is for the children fleeing gang violence in central america, this is a humanitarian crisis, they say. a lot of the children, some of them as young as 4, 5 years old. they arrive in the u.s. alone and they end up in federal