May’s arrest totals are expected to be at least as high as the previous two months, administration officials and Border Patrol agents said. “The Trump administration is restoring the rule of law by increasing prosecutions of illegal border crossers.”According to a Trump adviser, the president was warned this spring that illegal border crossings were likely to increase. The number of illegal border crossings “is going to go higher and higher yet,” said the adviser. A Border Patrol agent in South Texas said the family separation measures were not being applied as broadly as assumed. “I’m very proud to say that we’re way down in the people coming across the border,” Trump said in January.

Source: Washington Post June 01, 2018 18:25 UTC