U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officials said Tuesday more than 53,000 families were apprehended crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in March, the highest number recorded in a single month. The CBP statement came one day after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from forcing Central American migrants to wait in Mexico while their asylum cases were being processed in U.S. courts.
Migrants Cross Into US From Mexico
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U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents check migrants' belongings. This group of Guatemalan migrants, which includes a child, wait to be processed by an agent, April 9, 2019. C. Mendoza/VOA News
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A group of Guatemalan migrants, including five families, waits inside a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol truck after being processed at the crossing at El Paso, Texas, April 9, 2019. They said they walked from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and turned themselves in to
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Agent C. Baca processes a group of Guatemalan migrants who turned themselves in to authorities after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border without authorization, at the border between Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas, April 9, 2019.
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A migrant Guatemalan mother holds her infant child, who she said is sick with a cold. They are part of a group who turned themselves over to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents after crossing the border at Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, April 9, 2019. C. Mendoza/VOA News