![]() That’s a new record, and was unthinkable as recently as 2012, when this proportion reached 10 percent for the first time.įor generations before then, the typical profile of an undocumented migrant crossing into the United States from Mexico was a man, traveling without family. That has never happened before.Ĥ0 percent of apprehended migrants were children and family members. Two in five are now children and family members. The profile of a typical migrant has changed dramatically over the past five years. The number of adult migrants traveling without families (239,331) was almost certainly the second-lowest total since 1970. The number of migrants apprehended by Border Patrol at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2018-396,579 people-was the fifth lowest total since 1973. In fact, the flow is near its lowest point in half a century. Here is what the data is really telling us. Instead, they point to a need to adapt our asylum system to a very different profile of U.S.-bound migration, and to build up our official border crossings-our ports of entry- instead of our walls and barriers. But they’re not the problems that the president is talking about. The data about migration, and about what crosses the U.S.-Mexico border illicitly, point to problems at the border. (Source documents are listed and linked at the end of this analysis.) border authorities’ own security and immigration statistics, most of them produced in the past few months. ![]() This “hidden” reality is in full view in U.S. government urgently needs to change what it’s doing in order to deal with it. But we do face a historic humanitarian crisis, and the U.S. This reality bears no resemblance to what the president describes in his rallies. The president’s midterm-campaign rhetoric of “invasions” and “national emergencies” is distracting us from a vastly different reality at the border. ![]()
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