NEW YORK—U.S. border officers apprehended more than 132,000 people crossing the U.S. southern border in May, the government said on June 5, an increase over the previous month and the most in more than a decade, reaching what officials said were “crisis” levels.
President Donald Trump has grown increasingly frustrated with the rising number of mostly Central American migrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, and the new arrest numbers come as he has threatened Mexico with across-the-board tariffs if it does not do more to stem the flow.
