Thousands of Unaccompanied Children Continue to Cross Mexico's Northern Border Taylor Tyler - CNSNews
go to original April 10, 2015

Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) said he's happy the percentages are down, but he pressed Johnson to give him the "total numbers." (cnsnews.com)

Thousands of unaccompanied children continue to cross the southern border into the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told Congress this week.

The number of kids entering the country is down about 40 percent from a year ago, though, Johnson told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security.

"I hope it stays that way, but we have to be prepared in the event it doesn't," he said, reported CNS News.

Johnson said that last year, the total number of unaccompanied children apprehended was about 68,000, but this year, he expects the total to be between 27,000 and 40,000.

January 2015, with 2,121 children apprehended, was "actually the lowest monthly number we've had in quite a while," Johnson said.

In February, 2,395 children were picked up at the border, whereas in February 2014, the number was more than double that, at 4,845, Johnson noted.

He estimated that the numbers for March would be "around the 2,600 or 2,700 level," well below the 7,176 children who crossed in March 2014.

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