The U.S. government is gearing up for a record number of migrants traveling to America as families either cross its southern border illegally or claim asylum at a port of entry this year, a senior Homeland Security official told Fox News on Monday. The newspaper estimates the current number of cases in the backlog of the immigration court system is at 829,000. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPAmong other figures cited in the Wall Street Journal report are the total number of arrests of families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. In the past five months that number hit a record of 136,150 – up from 107,212 during the full 2018 fiscal year, it said. Overall, the total number of arrests at the border has been hovering near lows not observed since the 1970s, due to a decline in single adults trying to enter America, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Source: Fox News March 11, 2019 11:58 UTC