Migration across the southern border is reportedly like nothing the Department of Homeland Security has seen before.
U.S. border authorities arrested more than 975,000 people during the 2019 fiscal year, The Washington Post reports via Trump administration data released Tuesday. That's an 88 percent increase from the previous year, culminating in "numbers no immigration system in the world is designed to handle," U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan said Tuesday.
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With border authorities unprepared for these changing demographics, migrants and children are increasingly being kept in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, sparking condemnation from lawmakers and full-on lawsuits. The Trump administration has since tried to curb this surge by pushing Mexico to step up border enforcement on its side and making controversial agreements with Central American countries that bar people who travel through them from claiming asylum in the U.S. Those asylum bans with El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras go into effect this week, Morgan said Tuesday.
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