Border Arrests Top 50K for Third Straight Month

“U.S. border agents made more than 50,000 arrests in May for the third month in a row… an indication that escalating enforcement tactics by the Trump administration — including separating migrant parents from their children — has not had an immediate deterrent effect,” the Washington Post reports.

“Arrests at the border this spring have jumped to their highest levels since Trump took office, and the reversal has left the president furious at Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and other aides who he believes aren’t doing enough to stop the trend.”