It makes perfect sense,
@skeeter - the economy's getting better!
Contrary, perhaps, to your beliefs, these folks don't risk life and limb to leach off the system. They come here to find work. And there are a lot of employers ready and willing to hire them. To expand their businesses, to serve their customers.
But in the macro sense, increased illegal immigration is a tribute to Trump's and the GOP Congress's signature achievement - the reversal of the economy from the malaise of the Obama years.
I've said it before - Obama should be your hero, skeeter: he did more to stem the flow of illegals than any President in generations, by ruining the economy through overregulation and general hostility to capitalism.
Unless and until the legal immigration system provides the workers that employers need, illegals will feel the pull when times are good.
Times, it appears, may be getting good again.