House Republicans announced a set of proposals Wednesday that aim to curb the surge in unaccompanied child migrants crossing into the United States from Central America. 

The Republican proposal includes a mandate to deploy National Guard troops to secure the border, in addition to initiating reforms that enable President Obama to process and deport young children and their families back to their countries of origin. 

"I'd like to act. We've got a humanitarian crisis on the border that has to be dealt with," House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) told reporters Wednesday, according to The Washington Post. "The president clearly isn't going to deal with it on his own, even though he has the authority to deal with it on his own. But I do believe that Congress should act, and I hope that we will."

However, it is not clear when the House will take up the proposal, or if House Republicans will be able to strike a deal with Senate Democrats prior to Congress going on a five-week recess beginning Aug. 1. 

While Republicans want a vote on the proposal to happen as soon as possible, the House and Senate remain divided over whether to change an anti-trafficking law, which was passed in 2008, in order to speed up the processing and deportation of minors from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

While President Obama requested $3.7 billion in emergency funds from Congress to manage the immigration issue, Senate Democrats want to introduce a new spending bill that will appropriate $2.7 billion to help address the crisis. However, unlike the Republican plan, the Democratic proposal does not include changes to the 2008 law. 

The Republican plan that was announced Wednesday will allocate only $1.5 billion to pay for increased border security though the deployment of more National Guard members. The proposal would also amend the 2008 anti-trafficking law. 

Rep. Kay Granger (R-Tex.), who led a GOP group to take on the issue in the House, told The Washington Post that the goal is to "change the law -- not to repeal the law, not to completely change the law but change a portion that will let us send the children back in a very speedy way."

"We've been to Guatemala and Honduras and twice to the border to see what is really happening," she added. "The consensus, absolutely, is that we send the children back as quick as we can. We also want to make sure the countries receiving them have the capacity." 

She said that House GOP members disagree with the allocation of funds, as they believe Obama will use them to keep the undocumented children in the country. 

However, immigrants rights groups such as the California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance (CIYJA) do not believe that Obama is trying to curb deportations. Luis Serrano of CIYJA told Latin Post that President Obama is actually working to deport the migrant children. 

"He actually is not trying to provide help, he is trying to rapidly deport children, which is why he needs the money," Serrano said.

"Obama needs to understand that working with Republicans is not bipartisan at this point, it's anti-immigrant," he added. 

Nevertheless, he believes the proposal will be approved.

"I think the issue goes beyond kids, and really about the fact that every immigrant is some type of refugee," he said, "[...] due to economic reasons caused by free trade agreements or lack of resources, to being here because [of] the uncontrollable drug war. I think these issues need to be addressed in order to prevent this from occurring again."

Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, said the $1.5 billion will provide funding for the U.S. Border Patrol and National Guard, in addition to accelerating the processing and deportation of undocumented immigrants. The funds will also be allocated for humanitarian aid. 

Serrano told Latin Post that Democrats should not amend the 2008 bill, and that they should not capitulate to Republican demands. 

"I think Democrats need to step if they want to be pro-immigrant and oppose those type of proposals," he said. "We know were Republicans stand and what their agenda is, [and] we need to be more critical of it. We have to stop being pushovers."

President Obama will also meet with leaders from Central American countries Friday to discuss the growing crisis. Serrano said that they should talk about the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), in addition to the United States' role in destabilizing democratically elected governments in El Salvador, Honduras and Panama.

"Obama played a big role in a 2009 coup in Honduras that [put in] place a corrupt government -- a government that is responsible for the violence happening--that is pushing people to migrate here," he explained. "There needs to be a more honest conversation happening that allows for core solutions to follow."