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.
He patrols the desert north of the border in Cochise County, Arizona, documenting evidence that illegal crossers have been here.
Robin Hoover, co-founder of Humane Borders, the group that's put water stations in the desert to help prevent crossers from dying.
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.
And still the border-crossers keep coming, hundreds of them every night.
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.
But computer modelling revealed that most of the asteroids ejected by Jupiter and Saturn quickly dive into the sun, and thus cannot account for the large number of known Earth-crossers.
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.
An audit by the Journal last week found that the replacements may not have been as inept as imagined, but by the end of the weekend, it became clear that the line-crossers were undermining a young season, and that their mistakes and even perceived mistakes were dominating the NFL conversation.
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