Monthly arrests at U.S.-Mexico border top 100,000 in April, reaching highest point since 2007
Migrants are gathered behind a fence at a makeshift detention center in El Paso in late March. The number of border-crossers taken into U.S. custody topped 100,000 for the second consecutive month in April, U.S. border officials said Wednesday, deepening the crisis that has derailed President Trump’s immigration agenda and has defied his myriad attempts to fix it.
“My greatest concern is that we will no longer be able to deliver consequences and we will lose control of the border,” Provost said.Trump has treated the monthly publication of border enforcement statistics as a performance index for his administration’s immigration policies. The steady drumbeat of bad news has left him fuming and his administration scrambling for solutions.
Border Patrol agents apprehend border-crossers in Mission, Tex., last month. DHS officials already have declared a “breaking point” for U.S. border agents and infrastructure, with court rulings and a crunch of detention space forcing them to release the vast majority of migrant family members and children into the interior of the United States. Border officials view single adult migrants as the one remaining demographic they can deter by “applying consequences.
The migrant families who cross the border appear to know that they have a relatively easy path to release into the United States, and they have been turning themselves over to U.S. agents, the first step in starting an asylum application process that protects them from quick deportation. “Guatemala and Honduras have seen over 1 percent of their total population migrate to the U.S. in the first seven months of this fiscal year,” acting homeland security secretary Kevin McAleenan, Nielsen’s replacement, said in a speech Tuesday that outlined his border strategy. “One department of Guatemala, Huehuetenango, has seen almost 35,000 of its residents — close to 3 percent of the population — migrate to the U.S. in that time frame.
The third and fourth pillars, he said, would require partnerships with Mexico, to increase its immigration enforcement capacities, and with Central American leaders, to address “push” factors driving migrants to leave.
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