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    After the 'Trump effect' slowed illegal immigration, numbers rise again as Central Americans fear conditions at home

    by Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times Feb 08, 2018 4 minutes

    McALLEN, Texas - Illegal crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border, after declining in early 2017, began an unexpected upturn last spring that only recently receded, according to new government figures.

    The figures reflect the up-and-down nature of illegal immigration and are reminders that multiple factors - from politics to weather to conditions in home countries - influence who tries to come to the United States and when.

    Apprehensions on the southern border in October 2016, a month before Donald Trump's election, topped 66,000. After Trump's victory, the number of migrants trying to enter the U.S. illegally reached a 17-year low.

    Monthly apprehensions continued to drop into 2017, hitting 15,766 in April, when the downward trend

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