BURGEONING MIGRATION NUMBERS: According to the Texas Tribune, "Less than seven months into the fiscal year, the number of undocumented immigrants who have been apprehended or turned themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley has already surpassed last year's total." The 164,000 illegals arrested just since October is higher than the 2018 aggregate of 162,262. "The increase is the result of an ongoing surge of migrants, most of them from Central America." Meanwhile, the Washington Examiner reports, "The Mexican government says it has deported 15,000 migrants who illegally entered Mexico from Guatemala and had been traveling as part of caravans in hopes of reaching the United States' southern border," though "thousands more people continue to traverse the country intent on reaching the U.S."
