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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It does say "were kept overnight"

At this point think the US is overwhelmed. We need internationally administered fenced encampments as in Syria.
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You realize this is a feature of the Trump Administration. Overall immigration over the border is at all time lows, but Trump is purposefully using these kids and giving cronies the contracts with our tax dollars to mistreat them like this, all for the effect of making people on both sides outraged, but mostly to keep the wedge issue and his base stimulated.[/quote]

The Border Patrol reports 440,000 apprehensions at the southwest border through May of 2019, already nearly equal to the 467,000 apprehensions in all of 2018.

The number of apprehensions per month jumped from 48,000 in January to more than 90,000 in March and April and 133,000 in May.

According to U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., roughly 23,000 families per week are crossing the border illegally.

For May, the Border Patrol reported 96,049 apprehensions of immigrants from family units or unaccompanied children at the southern border. Converted to a weekly average (with 4.43 weeks in a 31-day month), that’s 21,681 people per week from a family unit.

If we look at all immigrants apprehended in May at the southern border -- families, adults and unaccompanied children -- the weekly average is about 30,000.

That’s more than three times the rate from a year earlier. In May 2018, an average of 9,000 migrants per week were apprehended at the southern border.

If we look at all apprehensions at the southern border, the number is well over what Johnson cited. And his general point about the increasing number of apprehensions at the border is correct.

We rate this claim True.

https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2019/jun/18/ron-johnson/sen-johnson-ballpark-southern-border-crossing-clai/

Where are you getting the information that border crossings are at an all time low?
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