Arrest data from the Homeland Security Department reported that an increasing number of people from around the globe have tried to sneak in the U.S. among the hundreds of thousands of other, mostly Latin American migrants caught at the Mexican border within the last year. More than 8,000 people from different countries, such as: India, China, Romania, Bangladesh and Nepal between October 2015 and August 2016. The increase in arrests has created a challenge for officials who are in charge of identifying immigrants and deporting those caught crossing the border illegally. The arrests suggest a rising trend in migrants searching for an alternative route that would be moving across the seas to South America, over land to Central America and then through Mexico before arriving at the U.S. border illegally.
Chaos at the border
