Despite unprecedented staffing levels at the border, Homeland Security officials say they’re seeing a drop in the number of illegal crossings at the border.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.
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The continuous drop comes despite "historic levels of front-line personnel, technology, and infrastructure," at the border, according to a statement released Friday by Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.
More than 151,000 people have been stopped along the southwest border for the first half of the 2015 fiscal year, according to the agency, a 28 percent drop for the same time period last year.
According to the agency, the numbers "are a fraction," of the number of apprehensions when compared to 2000, and a continual marker that the number of people crossing the border has been dropping.
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"Last summer we responded aggressively to stem the tide of unaccompanied children and families illegally migrating," Johnson's statement read.
From October 2013 to March 2014, more than 28,500 unaccompanied children were apprehended, the agency said, but that number has dropped by about 45 percent in the last six months.
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