GOP's Big Border Fail: Day 2 of House Republican Negotiations of Emergency Immigration Funding

Republicans want it to be easier to deport unaccompanied children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. And the politics of immigration have led to a big fail on the issue of emergency immigration funding in Congress. 

Legislators failed to meet their Aug. 1 goal on the border crisis, and immigration advocates say this all means that an executive action by President Barack Obama needs to happen.

But Republicans worked to hash out a new immigration bill today.

"A day after Republican leaders snatched two bills from the floor due to insufficient support and delayed the start of a five-week summer recess," reported ABCNews.com. "House Speaker John Boehner huddled behind closed doors with the Republican conference to work several changes into the legislation."

The new total of the spending measure is $694 million after leaders agreed to increase money for the National Guard by $35 million, doubling the previous total to $70 million, according to a senior Republican aide. 

One of the Republican party's big sticking points in the immigration crisis debate has to do with the 2008 law that sought to protect unaccompanied minors from Central America. The children coming here from Central America, unlike those from Mexico, are more likely to get a chance to ask for asylum and aren't sent back home right away.

"The Republican-controlled House of Representatives ground to a halt Thursday afternoon after it became clear that passage of a $659 million bill backed by the House leadership was in jeopardy," reported the Arizona Republic.

And as we're headed into the dog days of summer, it's a frustrating time for politicians to be hammering out the finer points of the massive immigration bills before them.

"House lawmakers postponed their five-week August recess to try again today, but the Democrat-controlled Senate is proceeding with its break after failing to advance its own $3.6 billion border-crisis bill."

"That means no legislation will reach Obama's desk until Congress returns in September. Obama on July 8 asked Congress for $3.7 billion in supplemental funding that he says his administration needs to respond to the influx of children," the report in the Republic stated.

"Because of President Obama's amnesty, children are being abused and exploited by dangerous drug cartels and transnational gangs," Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said in a statement this week. "We must put an end to any expansion of this amnesty that puts countless numbers of vulnerable individuals, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike, at risk."

Obama made remarks about the impasse on immigration, saying that Republicans are well aware that their new bill won't make it through the Senate. It's not a major move to even solve the problem, and Obama said he will have to do something because the deadlock is costing too much money.