Despite the increases, arrests of illegal border crossers remain at the lowest point since 1971.
Border crossers say they pay human smugglers, or coyotes, much more than they did a decade ago.
In the budget year that ended in September, Border Patrol agents arrested 356, 873 would-be border crossers along the Mexican border.
The hospital spent so much on things like emergency aid for border crossers it had to close its skilled nursing and maternity wards.
Administration officials have said regular apprehensions of illegal border crossers are at their lowest levels in decades, indicating the administration's border strategy is succeeding.
If border crossers enjoy more privacy in their computers than in their cars or suitcases, how are border agents to interpret the hundreds of things in between?
In the Rio Grande Valley, illegal border crossers from countries other than Mexico made up the majority of the increase in arrests, the Border Patrol has said previously.
One, advanced by Grassley, specifies that a requirement for 90 percent of would-be border crossers to be stopped or turned back must apply to the entire southern border, not just "high-risk" sectors.
According to the person familiar with the proposals, the new border security requirements call for 100 percent surveillance and a 90 percent apprehension rate of border crossers or would-be crossers in sectors where the majority of unauthorized entries take place.
And still the border-crossers keep coming, hundreds of them every night.
He patrols the desert north of the border in Cochise County, Arizona, documenting evidence that illegal crossers have been here.
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