Editorial: Trump's harsh immigration tactics aren't working. Migrant crossings are soaring
The numbers are sobering. The federal government reported Tuesday that immigration agents apprehended 76,000 people - most of them families or unaccompanied minors - at the U.S.-Mexico border in February, twice the level of the previous year and the highest for February in 11 years. The increase continues a trend that began in the fall, and offers direct evidence that President Donald Trump's strategy of maximum enforcement at the border is not reducing the flow of migrants.
