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Data published on Tuesday by Border Patrol, published by the Border Patrol, published in the United States. Such arrests reached 107,212 for the 2018 fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, exceeding the previous high of 77,857 in the 2016 fiscal year. In total, nearly 400,000 people were apprehended by border agents in the 2018 fiscal year.
The "zero tolerance" policy is supposed to be a deterrent to families with children. But from the outset, the policy seemed poorly planned.
According to the Government Accountability Office report, days after Mr. Sessions announced the policy, leaders of agencies at the Department of Homeland Security, including Customs and Border Protection, sought guidance from the Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary, on how to enforce it .
In May, the department finally issued a memo directing border agents to the border. Adults were turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and placed in detention facilities. Migrant children were sent to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Under a 1997 court agreement, migrant children can not be detained for more than 20 days.
Many of the children were placed in government-run shelters from their parents. But the report found that in some cases, officials at the Department of Homeland Security did not notify staff at the shelters that a child had been separated from his or her parents. One shelter's officials told the Government Accountability Office that they have learned that the child is separated from the child.
It was not until July 6, 16 days after Mr. Trump signed a executive order to terminate the family separations and 10 days after a federal court halt the policy, that the report said.
Most of the children have been reunited with their families under a short order. But Mr. Pallone said the administration was too long to develop a process to identify and reunite families.
"The gross failures will be long remembered, hopefully never repeated," he said.
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