Under this Administration's announced "zero tolerance" policy, adults traveling without children continue to be subject to criminal prosecution for illegal entry. But with apprehensions up and criminal prosecutions down, this left a much larger number who were not referred for criminal prosecution.

During February 2019, a generous estimate indicates criminal prosecutions had fallen to only 38 percent of total Border Patrol apprehensions of adults arrested traveling alone and not part of any family group. This does not count individuals at ports-of-entry who were found seeking to unlawfully enter using fraudulent documents, or individuals caught at ports-of-entry illegally smuggling individuals, drugs, or cargo.

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