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Trump describes a “tremendous onslaught” of people coming to the “lawless” border. But the number of people crossing has dropped significantly.
Border Patrol agents apprehended 1.6 million people in 2000, and fewer than 400k last year.
Border Patrol agents apprehended 1.6 million people in 2000, and fewer than 400k last year.
This @vox chart shows the trend — arrests haven’t been this low since the 1970s. vox.com/2019/1/8/18173…
But more people than ever are being held in immigrant detention centers — around 44,000 a day as of November.
People engage in hunger strikes to protest bad conditions, abuse and threats. Right now, ICE is under a court order to force-feed some of them. apnews.com/c4b201dac8bf48…
People engage in hunger strikes to protest bad conditions, abuse and threats. Right now, ICE is under a court order to force-feed some of them. apnews.com/c4b201dac8bf48…
The government is holding a record number of migrant kids in federal shelters, and holding them longer than ever — many in huge, remote facilities — even though more children crossed alone in 2014 and 2016.
revealnews.org/article/no-one…
revealnews.org/article/no-one…
The government even paid one contractor to house children in a vacant office building, where children bathed in the sink. revealnews.org/article/when-a…
Trump announced in June that the government was through with family separation. But many families are still being kept apart. revealnews.org/article/salvad…
