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This is not a complete plan, to me. What are missing are three things.

Congress must immediately increase funding to ORR for fiscal year 2014 so that the influx of children at the border is not paid for by the refugees from Iraq, Syria, Eritrea, Sudan, and Ukraine and elsewhere who have been generously…

We cannot sit back and let this situation grow worse, as it does day by day.

If we want an extraordinary response to an extraordinary problem, why don't we consider using the National Guard?

The United States has both a security and moral obligation to help resolve this emergency.

We can't ignore the legitimate cries for help from refugee children.

More money may well be needed to deal with the consequences of this crisis, but it does not address the causes of the problem, and that is what is troubling to me.

I think all of us can agree that we are facing a humanitarian crisis of the first magnitude.

The best way to make this surge of children temporary is to pass an emergency supplemental and undertake a substantial deterrent strategy.

These children will be sent back.

This is a refugee crisis that we are seeing along our southern border.

The rule of law must be restored.

I am particularly concerned about the condition and care of the young women and girls who are being detained along our border.

Our veterans are the ones paying the price for this dysfunction.

When a veteran is experiencing depression or other early warning signs that may indicate mental health issues or even suicide, that must be treated like an immediate medical crisis, because that is exactly what it is.

Push reform where possible and develop new legislation where necessary to facilitate partnerships with the community.

So once again, we are finding that our veterans deserve much better than the care they are receiving.

But one that we haven't zeroed in on too much yet has been access to mental health care and suicide prevention services for our veterans.