SOURCE: HOTAIR
URL:
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/04/09/apprehensions-border-hit-12-year-high-march/by John Sexton
This isn’t unexpected. In fact, the Border Patrol predicted this would happen when they published the numbers for February, but now it’s no longer just speculation. The number of people apprehended or turned away at the border topped 100,000 last month, the highest total for the month of March in 12 years. From NBC News:
U.S. officials encountered more than 103,000 undocumented immigrants crossing the country’s southwest border in March, Homeland Security officials said Tuesday.
The number makes last month a record for March for border crossings since 2007, when more than 115,000 immigrants were stopped at the border.
CBP published this updated graph. The bright red line is FY2019. You can see how far above the past 5 years we are at this point. You can also see that in previous years the real peak didn’t happen until May so there’s some reason to think these numbers could continue going up.
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