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The number of illegal immigrants detained at the US border beats records for the second month in a row

US border officials told 8 in May that the number of illegal immigrants detained at the border in April exceeded 100 000, and this is the second month in a row with this indicator.

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The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) detained 109 144 migrants along the border with Mexico last month, which is 6% more than in March. Monthly arrests of illegal immigrants have reached their highest level since 2007. The number of unauthorized crossings of the US southern border has more than doubled over the past year, and they exceed 1 million each year. The cause of the crisis are Guatemalan and Honduran families, which in record quantities are sent to the United States in the hope that after their capture and application for asylum they will be allowed to live in the United States pending a court hearing of their cases, writes The Washington Post.

“Our arrest rates are beyond any limits. We cannot solve this crisis by simply moving more resources to the border. It's like holding a bucket under a tap. It doesn’t matter how many buckets we have if we can’t turn off the flow,” said Carla Provost, Border Patrol chief.

“My biggest concern is that we will no longer be able to punish people for illegal crossings, and we will lose control of the border,” she added.

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Trump considered the monthly publication of border control statistics as an indicator of the effectiveness of his administration’s immigration policy, but the figures for the past few months have caused his discontent, and he intends to look for tougher solutions to the crisis.

To strengthen the country's southern border, Trump has deployed military units there, he is actively promoting a plan to build a wall and even threatened to completely close the border. But all these physical measures have failed to scare away Central Americans, who are fleeing grim poverty, widespread violence and crop failures in their home countries.

Therefore, Belyi officials are attempting to tighten the asylum procedure to make it harder for migrants to obtain asylum in the United States. Administration intends to enter asylum feeand also to deprive applicants of the right to work in the United States until the completion of their cases.

However, the immigration crisis in the country is gaining momentum.

Representatives of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for the first time this week stated that the agency did not have enough space to detain adult migrants detained in April. One DHS employee warned of a complete violation of border security, even if single adults who enter the US illegally, will no longer be detained and deported.

DHS officials have already announced a “tipping point” for US border agents and infrastructure, when court decisions and a limited number of places of detention forced them to release the vast majority of migrant families and children after being arrested, allowing them to live in the US. The border guards believe that single adult migrants remain the only group of migrants they can detain, “demonstrating the consequences” of illegal crossing the American border.

“If we were forced to release single adult immigrants, we predict that you would see an influx of undocumented immigrants like we have never seen in our history,” a DHS spokesperson said.

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Historically, May is one of the busiest months of the year in terms of illegal border crossings, and officials say that the number of detained migrants has increased over the past 10 days compared to previous months. On Saturday, 4 May, 5 075 arrests were made, which was the highest number in one day since the number of detentions began to grow in 2017.

US officials are preparing for the fact that this summer these numbers will grow to 150 000 illegal immigrants per month if efforts to curb their flow do not work.

Families of migrants who cross the border seem to know that the United States will be able to get relatively easily, and they voluntarily allow themselves to be detained, which is the first step in the beginning of the asylum application process, which protects them from rapid deportation.

The work of border guards is also complicated by the fact that illegal immigrants travel in large groups (100 or more people). There have been 135 such groups over the past seven months - 10 times more than in all of 2018.

At the moment, migrant flows continue to move towards the American border, so there is no hope for an improvement in the situation.

A study by Vanderbilt University showed that 1 from 4 of Guatemalans is interested in emigration. Of those who want to emigrate, 85 percent stated that the United States is their preferred destination.

Considering the country's population, we are talking about more than 4 million Guatemalans who intend to immigrate to the United States.

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The Trump administration continues to work on legislation that can reduce the wave of illegal immigration in the United States.

Last week, the White House said it would ask Congress for $4,5 billion in additional funding to address the border crisis, with the largest share of that money — $2,8 billion — going to cover the cost of detaining migrant minors who arrive in the U.S. without their parents. or guardians. More than 8 unaccompanied children crossed the U.S. border illegally last month.

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