‘We’re Getting Hammered.’ Record Number of Border Crossings

In the last few months, a HUGE number of families with children have crossed the southern border of the U.S. since President Trump ended the policy of family separations at the border. 

LMT Online reports: 

The number of migrant parents entering the United States with children has surged to record levels in the three months since President Donald Trump ended family separations at the border, dealing the administration a deepening crisis three weeks before the midterm elections.

U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested 16,658 family members in September, the highest one-month total on record and an 80 percent increase from July, according to unpublished Homeland Security statistics obtained by The Washington Post.

Large groups of 100 or more Central American parents and children have been crossing the Rio Grande and the deserts of Arizona to turn themselves in, and by citing a fear of return, the families are typically assigned a court date and released from custody.

“We’re getting hammered daily,” said one Border Patrol agent in south Texas who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the news media.