I.C.E. Gives New Figures on Illegals Arrested at US Southern Border

      In an effort to bolster the White House request for funds to construct another 215 miles of border wall/fence/moat along the Mexican border with Texas, Homeland Security announced that over 33,000 arrests were made last month of illegals crossing said border.   Most all were families coming from Central America.   This is the largest number of arrests in 10 years.  Some may argue this is not an emergency or a cause of such a declaration by the sitting president, but it certainly seems that something has changed in that particular zone of the border.
      It is common knowledge that information regarding current goals and abilities of border police filter down south, and that such information affects decision making by those seeking to come to the US.   Most of those apprehended were members of family groups.  They do not attempt to evade the border police, but, unlike their many predecessors, seek out border personnel to turn themselves in, and to seek asylum here under any pretext they think will work.   Since holding units were not designed for families, but rather single, male workers seeking jobs, most of these families are left in a limbo-like state without any coherent idea of their status or their future.  Most (+90% will not be granted asylum and will be forcibly returned to their homelands wherever that may be.
     Perhaps Congress will address this most recent uptick in arrests.  Perhaps not.