The basic numbers are In 2014, President Obama declared it a national humanitarian Crisis when about 120,000 unaccompanied children, but primarily people coming in as part of a family, entered illegally and were apprehended. Through the first eight months of this year, we're already over 400,000 individuals [apprehended at the border]. And if May's pace continues, in the next four months, we'll double that. We'll be over 800,000. (02:18–02:24)
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Asserts that over 400,000 individuals have been apprehended at the border in the first eight months of the year.
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