President Obama will face more pressure this week to help resolve the immigration crisis at the Texas border as he travels to the state for three fundraisers and a speech focused on the economy.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who ran an unsuccessful campaign for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012, several times has invited Obama to visit the border to get a first-hand grasp of the crisis involving tens of thousands of unaccompanied children flooding across the border into the United States.