Even if migration is limited to 2,500 per day for a full calendar year ... That works out to a yearly total of 1.8 million border crossers — a figure that would represent the fifth-highest ...

“At best, the [Defense] Department estimates that it will spend $1 billion to $2 billion for unplanned border missions this year, even as illegal migrant encounters are at the lowest level since ...

While monthly data before fiscal year 2000 is not publicly available, the last time Border Patrol averaged roughly 8,000 apprehensions per month over a year was in fiscal year 1968, according to ...