DHS report: 1 million illegal immigrants expected this year, 53,077 family units in March

The U.S. Border Patrol expects to apprehend nearly 1 million illegal immigrants this year, a decade high, according to a Department of Homeland Security panel charged with recommending fixes to the broken immigration system. “Apprehensions by USBP, currently at levels not seen in a decade, will approach one million in FY19 unless actions are immediately taken,” said the interim report from the Customs and Border Patrol Family and Child Custody Panel. “The unabated 600% surge of [family units] from Central America to our borders and properly caring for this population have overwhelmed the entire government and brought our border security and immigration management systems to the point of collapse,” said the report. It showed that 53,077 “family unit" immigrants were apprehended last month alone. It projected more than 500,000 in fiscal 2019. The report released in mid-April generated some news for recommending immediate changes to stall the freeing of illegal immigrants into the country. But it also included new numbers on the border crisis and blunt assessments of how easy it is for illegal immigrants to game the system and stay in the country for years...MORE