Members of Congress offer solutions for crisis of asylum-seekers [Video]

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) — Two members of Congress from Arizona offered differing reasons and solutions for the impending crisis of asylum-seekers being dumped onto the streets of cities across the state.

Right now, nonprofit shelters, with the help of Arizona cities and counties, take in asylum seekers as soon as Customs and Border Patrol agents drop them off. The federal government funded the arrangement and is credited with preventing migrants from wandering the streets. But the money is drying up and may be gone by the end of March unless Congress acts.

In Nogales, Democratic Congressman Ruben Gallego blasted extremists in Washington and across the country for blocking a bipartisan immigration bill that would have provided for border security, humanitarian aid, as well as reforms to the asylum process.

“Less than one day after this bill was announced, extremists in Congress and across the country quickly mobilized to block the package. Not because it was a …