The president’s budget calls for cutting thousands of beds in immigrant detention facilities — and shutting down two family detention centers in Texas — while spending $75 million more on alternative programs, such as monitoring migrants with ankle bracelets or phone check-ins. The administration estimates as many as 200,000 migrants could be enrolled in such programs by October, according to budget documents.

The president is also calling for $375 million to speed up the asylum system, including hiring more than 1,000 new U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officers to adjudicate claims on the border, rather than sending them to backlogged courts.

His budget request asks for more than $2 billion to stand up emergency shelters for unaccompanied children, an effort to avoid the overcrowding in Border Patrol facilities that sparked outrage a year ago. His budget would also spend roughly $150 million to fund attorneys for migrants in detention or facing deportation, which would be a first. The government has not paid those costs in the past.

• White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain seemed to suggest that Congress is to blame for the southern border crisis not the White House


• 'Look, we need to do more work at the border,' Klain told ABC's This Week during an interview on Sunday morning


• He added: 'The president sent an immigration plan to Congress on his first day in office. We've asked consistently for more resources'


• Experts warn that the migration influx at the southern border could triple once Title 42 ends on May 23