As Border Crossings Tick Up, Migrants Bring Children, Take More Dangerous Routes
After dropping sharply when President Trump took office, the number of undocumented immigrants apprehended at the border is again on the rise.
The number of immigrants illegally crossing the southern border plummeted when Donald Trump took office. But the number is again on the rise. In response, the president plans to deploy up to 4,000 National Guard troops.
In West Texas, immigrant shelters are overflowing with recent arrivals and some migrants are trying more dangerous routes to evade capture. The intake room at Annunciation House, an immigrant shelter in downtown El Paso, is packed these days. Parents and squirming Thirteen-year-old Leslie Morán, with a ponytail and a Minnie Mouse shirt, says she and her father, Daniel, left Honduras because there was so much crime, and she couldn't attend school anymore.
