As the nation's border states continue to see an influx of unaccompanied minors from Central America cross the U.S.-Mexico border, filling up federal facilities, President Barack Obama urged Congress on Wednesday to pass a $3.7 billion fund to process the undocumented minors and transport them back to their homelands.

The president slammed Congress during a news conference in Dallas and expressed frustration for the gridlock that has held up the nation's money, Al Jazeera America reported.

"Are folks more interested in politics, or are they interested in solving the problem?" Obama asked.

Obama continued his criticism by pointing out that the immigration reform bill, which passed in the Senate last year before getting stalled in the Republican-led House, would have placed an additional 20,000 Border Patrol agents along the border.

Following the president's meeting with Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Obama said he was open to the idea of placing National Guard troops at the border to increase personnel but called it a temporary fix. He insisted that immigration reform would be the more sustainable solution.

Perry said getting more money and other resources from the White House could help alleviate swamped border authorities' workloads, Al Jazeera reported.

"Five hundred miles south of here in the Rio Grande Valley, there is a humanitarian crisis unfolding that has been created by bad public policy, in particular the failure to secure the border," Perry said in a statement. "Securing the border is attainable, and the president needs to commit the resources necessary to get this done."

President Obama said the U.S. would provide security assistance to the violence-plagued Central American countries from which children are fleeing. He said this would allow parents to feel safer having their children stay at home rather than feeling the need to send them up north, according to Al Jazeera.

Under current law, deporting undocumented Central American migrants is a lengthier process than deporting Mexican migrants, as the U.S. does not share a border with Central American countries. However, the White House will attempt to expedite the process through new legal powers, the president said.

El Salvador's ambassador to the U.S. told Al Jazeera he opposes a proposal by American officials to send the children back on charted flights.

Immigration activists and reform advocates have criticized Obama during the last five years for not getting a comprehensive immigration bill passed. He is also called the "deporter in chief" because undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children are now facing deportation just as is happening with undocumented adult immigrants, Al Jazeera reported.