Oct 18, 2016 ... United States Border Patrol Southwest Family Unit Subject and Unaccompanied  Alien Children Apprehensions Fiscal Year 2016 ... This represents an increase  over FY15, but was lower than FY14 and FY13, and a fraction of the number of  apprehensions routinely observed from the 1980s through 2008.
Jul 15, 2014 ... Part of the reason for the large number of children being held at the border is that  children from Central American countries can't be sent back as quickly ... The  administration's own estimates are that it's going to be about 60,000 to 90,000  this year, that it's going to increase to 150,000 to 200,000 next year.
In 2009 the Department of Homeland Security estimated that there were 1.68  million undocumented immigrants living in Texas. (The nation as a ... According  to a 2009 report by the Pew Hispanic Center, there are nearly three times as  many U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants as undocumented children. If we  include all ...
While the size of the overall immigrant population (legal and illegal) has tripled  since 1970, the number of immigrants from the Middle East has grown more than  seven-fold, from fewer than 200,000 in 1970 to nearly 1.5 million in 2000. The  INS last estimated that 150,000, or about 10 percent, of Middle Eastern  immigrants ...
Apr 11, 2016 ... Summary. Since FY2011, the number of unaccompanied alien children (UAC)  traveling to the United States ... minors from the region at the U.S. border in  FY2014, a more than 1,200% increase compared to. FY2011. ... Over the past  two years, the Obama Administration has sought closer cooperation with.
The Obama administration estimates the number of children at the border is "going to increase to 150,000 to 200,000 next year."