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Border apprehensions jump 84 percent, 606,000 expected this year

By Paul Bedard
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Border apprehensions jump 84 percent, 606,000 expected this year

January saw a surprising surge of 22,000 more apprehensions of illegal immigrants at southwest border crossings over January 2018, prompting a key predictor to suggest that border officers will make over 600,000 apprehensions this year.

The year-over-year increase was 84 percent, from 25,975 in January 2018 to 47,893 last January, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

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