What’s Driving the Latest Surge of Illegal Immigration From Central America
Since Oct. 1, Border Patrol apprehensions of migrant families in the Rio Grande Valley have increased 150 percent over the same period last year, while the number of unaccompanied children has more than doubled.
In a reprise of the humanitarian crisis of summer 2014, rising numbers of Central American children and families are crossing the Rio Grande Valley into Texas, causing a reckoning over whether the U.S. is facing a “new normal” of illegal migration from countries facing violence and poverty.