Massive border numbers force officials to keep adding layers to stat chart

The enormous number of migrants being encountered at the southern border has forced Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to add more lines to its chart showing the amount of migrant apprehensions each month -- as arrests rocket past the 200,000 mark.

That is the highest in 21 years and well beyond anything encountered in recent years. On Customs and Border Protection’s Southwest Land Border data center, the start includes data going back to FY 2018 and until recently did not require anything above 150,000 after the 144,116 migrant encounters in May 2019 -- at the peak of that year’s border crisis. However, it passed the 150,000 mark in March, when the number of encounters shot up from 101,098 in February to 173,283.