Mexican-U.S. border: A look at the migrant caravan by the numbers
Article publisher:
AJC
Article date:
26 November 2018
Article category:
National News
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- 6,200: The number of Central American migrants camped in Tijuana, Mexico, as of Sunday
- 3,000: The number of migrants in the Mexican city of Mexicali, a few hours east of Tijuana, as of Sunday
- 100: The average number of asylum claims processed a day at the San Ysidro, California, border crossing facility
- 80: The number of asylum seekers allowed into the U.S. at the San Ysidro border crossing on Friday, Nov. 23
- 40: The number of asylum seekers allowed into the U.S. at San Ysidro on Saturday, Nov. 24
- 6: The number of months it is estimated to take to process the migrant caravan that is in Tijuana now
- 100,000: The number of visitors per day to the United States who enter using the San Ysidro border crossing into the United States
- 23,121: The number of “family units” who were arrested along the U.S. southern border in October
- 150: The percentage increase in arrests of family units along the southern border since July 2018
- $10,000: How much one Central American migrant said he would have been charged by a smuggler to travel to the United States
- $9,000: How much that migrant was charged for his passage and passage for a child; some smugglers give a discount when a migrant brings a child along
- 39,322: The average number of undocumented immigrants who are in custody on a given day in the United States
- $2.8 billion: The amount the Trump administration has requested so Immigration and Customs Enforcement can expand the detention capacity for an average of 49,000 adults and 2,500 families
- 5,800: The number of active-duty troops recently sent to secure the southern border of the United States
- 12,290,905: The total number of deportations during Bill Clinton’s presidency
- 10,328,850: The total number of deportations during George W. Bush’s presidency
- 5,281,115: The total number of deportations during Barack Obama’s presidency
- 226,000: The number of undocumented [illegal] aliens removed from the country in the 2017 fiscal year, down 6 percent since FY 2016
- 2,000: The number of miles along the southern border...
CAIRCO Notes
The above statistics reveal that Obama was never the "deporter in chief."