President Donald Trump wants his officials to take a tougher stance, but is stymied by US laws protecting migrants.
Sisters Fernanda and Evelyne Lopez look toward their father standing in San Diego on the other side of the US-Mexico border fence.failure of President Donald Trump to halt uncontrolled immigrationMore than two years after he took office, tens of thousands of mostly Central Americans travel across the southern US border each month, requesting asylum so that they cannot immediately be sent back home.
Since then the numbers have steadily increased. In the six months to February, apprehensions topped 60,000 a month, and March could have neared 100,000, officials say.The number of migrants arriving in families, and as unaccompanied children, has also soared, straining facilities to house and process them. Several have died while in US custody.
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