U.S. officials apprehended more than 200,000 people trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally in the past four months, about an 85 percent increase from the same time last year, according to data released Friday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Families are coming in large groups by buses, often several hundred people at a time and sometimes relying on social media to coordinate their trip north.
In December, the Department of Homeland Security announced a plan to require asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while they wait for their claim to be heard by an immigration judge. That policy has only been implemented in a small number of cases near Tijuana, although DHS officials say the plan is to implement it across the entire border.
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