The humanitarian migrant crisis at the border that has been building for months reached a staggering new juncture with reports of inhumane conditions for children in detention and the drowning deaths of Salvadoran migrants Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his daughter Valeria in the Rio Grande as they tried to get to the United States to declare asylum.
There have been 133,000 other migrants apprehended at the border in May, including 96,000 members of family units and unaccompanied minors. The number of border apprehensions for the fiscal year through May were nearly 600,000, including more than 330,000 members of family units. We are on pace for the highest numbers of apprehended migrants at the border in over a decade.
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