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How could they not have thought about what to do once they passed the “legal limit”?

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The government will surely fine themselves and learn their lesson. /s

Considering it went from 9 to 3,200 in less than a month, wouldn't a better question be what caused this sudden spike?

Apparently the U.S. detained 100,000 migrants on the Mexican border in February alone. [0]

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-border-id...

100,000 sounds like an invasion army. No wonder it has a lot of people upset for various reasons.

Comparing a bunch of kids to an invading army is stupid

Sounds like a humanitarian disaster to me.

100,000 isn’t a “bunch of kids” it’s a small town

Dismissing a 100,000 foreign individuals crossing your border as "a bunch of kids" is even more disingenuous and further fuels the issues the anti-immigration folk have. 100,000 is not peanuts. As the other commenter mentioned, that's a bigger than probably hundreds of towns in the USA.

Anywho, if we really "cared" about all the "bunch of kids" suffering in Mexico, we would have invaded Mexico and installed a "democratic" government years ago.

If you look into the full numbers there were massively more deportations under the obama/biden administration than under the trump administration. So my assumption(which could be incorrect) is that this is just business as usual.

Now, I'm not sure about the total apprehension numbers as the above mentioned stat could be gamed by holding people instead of deporting them. When I was looking into this I couldn't find those (apprehension) numbers by year anywhere.

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