WAPO: Arrests of migrant families rose 38 percent in August in what Trump officials call a ‘crisis’ at the border
The sharp increase followed the president’s decision to back off his “zero tolerance” crackdown that sought to deter illegal immigration by separating children from their parents.
Immigration agents working in along Texas’ southern border said that the migrant groups crossing the Rio Grande were so large, they had to be taken to the detention facilities on buses.
