PEREIRA: Some breaking news into the Newsroom. Into the CNN Newsroom. Obviously the President is looking at a big issue here in the United States about immigration and has asked for some funding regarding spending more research -- being able to fund resources to fix the situation he calls very much broken. I want to get straight to Jim Acosta who is at the White House to talk to us, because the amount is higher than previously thought, is it not?</s>JIM ACOSTA, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely, that's right, Michaela. We were hearing something in the neighborhood of more than $2 billion. Obviously $2.01 billion could be more than $2 billion. Then as we were getting closer to this announcement, the White House was saying significantly more than $2 billion and this would be almost double that, $3.7 billion is the request from President Obama to Congress to deal with this border crisis. And I believe we have a graphic to break that down. $1.8 billion would go to the department of health and human services for the care of the unaccompanied children who have been flooding into the United States. $1.1 billion would go to the department of homeland security for the transportation, detention and removal of many of these children. White House officials are on a conference call with reporters earlier this morning stressing that because of the way the law is written, they believe that many of these children just are not eligible to stay in the country, so they will have to be removed.
Obama Requests $3.7 Billion from Congress on Immigration Crisis