Border Patrol arrested nearly 99,000 migrants last month — a number that the agency’s chief said is “off the charts compared to recent years”
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The high volume of border arrests represents a remarkable reversal since 2017, President Donald Trump's first year in office, when these arrests fell to their lowest level in 46 years and a Department of Homeland Security reportBorder arrest figures subsequently increased in 2018, and have escalated more rapidly in recent months.
In response to the influx, the White House last week urged Congress to provide an additional $4.5 billion in funding this year to address the surge. More than half of that funding would pay for additional shelter space for unaccompanied minors. The rest would fund an increase in adult detention beds, new processing centers and other initiatives related to the response.. The family arrests represented more than half of the monthly total.
The agency picked up nearly 9,000 unaccompanied minors in April, similar to the previous month, but still high relative to past trends.
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