4.3M Migrants Caught at SW Border in Decade — More Than Los Angeles Population
By BOB PRICE Border Patrol agents apprehended more than four million migrants who illegally crossed the southwest border with Mexico during the past 10 fiscal years. If these migrants were placed into a single city, it would be larger than Los Angeles by population. During the past 10 fiscal years, October 1, 2009, through September 30, 2019, U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the nine sectors that make up the United States’ southwest border with Mexico apprehended 4,318,200 migrants. The highest year during that decade for apprehensions occurred during Fiscal Year 2019 when agents apprehended 851,553 — including 76,020 Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) and 473,682 Family Unit Aliens (FMUA), according to reports obtained from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Apprehensions by Fiscal Year: FY2019 — 851,553 FY2018 — 396,579 FY2017 — 303,916 FY2016 — 408,870 FY2015 — 331,333 FY2014 — 479,371 FY2013 — 414,397 FY2012 —...