Shortly after Trump took office, apprehensions of undocumented immigrants
attempting to cross the border into the U.S. hit a 17-year low, which
administration officials gleefully dubbed “
the Trump effect.” The number of migrants now attempting to cross the border again
has surged, providing that the so-called Trump effect that deterred some
immigrants from border crossings has worn off. For example, in December
2017, the number of migrants attempting to cross the Southwest border
alone surpassed 40,000, a figure that is more than double the monthly
figures from the spring of 2017. As a result of the increase in attempted
border crossings, border officers are stopping an estimated 1,000 people
per day. Migrant shelters are at maximum capacity, and immigration lawyers
are seeing soaring caseloads. Some immigration advocates believe that
since Trump’s promises to build a border wall and hire thousands
more border agents have not come to fruition and completely lack funding
at this point, immigrants are finding it no riskier to attempt a border
crossing than it was in the past. For its part, the Trump administration
is now using the large increases in border crossings as support for a
comprehensive overhaul of immigration laws. Despite the rebound in border
apprehensions in recent months, however, there are no clear estimates
as to how many immigrants are successfully crossing the border. Still,
the recent increases in border crossing attempts have not eclipsed the
numbers that reached a crisis point in 2014, when as many as 70,000 immigrants
per month were attempting to cross the border, many of whom were unaccompanied
minors from Central America. As the Department of Homeland Security points
out, the border apprehensions in 2017 still were a 40% decrease from 2016.
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