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Let's post a bunch of migration data using CBP and Mexico government numbers.
With 800,000+ apprehended in 11 months, this is the largest apprehensions total since 2007. But unlike 2007, 2 out of 3 are children and parents. In fact, single adults are still trending down. (1/9)
With 800,000+ apprehended in 11 months, this is the largest apprehensions total since 2007. But unlike 2007, 2 out of 3 are children and parents. In fact, single adults are still trending down. (1/9)
Trump's June tariff threat caused Mexico to increase its own apprehensions, leading to a drop in US apprehensions at the border. But we've seen this before: there were drops after crackdowns and disruptions in 2014 and 2017, and migration recovered after a few months. (2/9)
The crackdown has further increased demand on Mexico's overwhelmed, underfunded asylum system. (3/9)
After the crackdown, migration from Guatemala dropped more sharply than migration from Honduras. Honduras is now the number-one origin country for migrants apprehended at the US-Mexico border, followed by Guatemala then Mexico. (4/9)
Add people on waitlists plus "Remain in Mexico" victims, and there were at least 52,000 asylum seekers stuck in Mexican border towns by the end of July. It's probably somewhere around 65,000-70,000 now: a nightmare scenario. (5/9)
CBP seems to have eased "metering" ever-so-slightly in August. (6/9)
11 months into fiscal 2019, seizures of cocaine, meth, and fentanyl already exceed fiscal 2018. As usual, most seizures happen at ports of entry, not the areas in between where some would build more walls. Heroin is flat, perhaps because demand for fentanyl is greater. (7/9)
Marijuana seizures continue to decline sharply at the border, a likely outcome of states' legalizations, and port-of-entry seizures are suddenly the majority. (8/9)
Download these graphics and more as a big PDF at bit.ly/wola-border. (9/9)
