Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen says the United States is on track to apprehend 900,000 undocumented immigrants at the southern border this year
"The projections are dire," Nielsen told the House Homeland Security Committee during a contentious hearing.2006 was the last year to reach over a million apprehensions and 2007 was the next closest with 876,704. Democrats are using the hearing to question Nielsen about administration policy which resulted in the separation of thousands of children from their parents last year.
Increase in families coming to borderOn Tuesday, Customs and Border Protection officials announced that families and unaccompanied children make up more than 60% of apprehensions along the southern border. They're predominantly from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. More than 76,000 people were apprehended or deemed inadmissible at a port of entry in February. This, combined with an influx of groups of over 100 people illegally crossing the border, has presented a unique challenge to CBP.
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