how many people do the border patrol get ahold of trying to cross the border illegally. in this fiscal year, we have july, august and september numbers missing. 1,119,000. compare that to last year. 458,000 for the entire fiscal year. the year before that, 977,000 for the entire fiscal year. before that, in fy-18, 521,000. those are big numbers. sometimes we lose sort of a sense of what those numbers mean. look at it by day. this year, so far, 4,372. nearly 4,400 people caught coming across the border illegally compared to 1,251 last year, a 250% increase. 268,000 in 2019. 63% more per day. if y-18, 427. twice as big, more than twice as big this time around.
try to deter essentially lawful asylum seeking on the part of people leaving the most dangerous countries in the world and one thing i ve got to tell you, by cbp s own admission, family unit apprehension is down 4% to date this year over last year. unaccompanied alien children is up only 3% over this same time last year. so insofar as we have a crisis. wait a second, wait a second. the administration is making the crisis. the numbers are down year over year? if you look at fy-18, may 30th to fy-17, may 30th, this is from cbp s own website. looked at it before i came on your show. the numbers are down for family units, up slightly for unaccompanied alien children. they are provoking this crisis, deepening it by sharing information from are the office of refugee resettlement with i.c.e. so that as we re trying to place kids with relatives in the u.s. recent i.c.e. is first
we can get them together with their parents. it s unclear if the administration dysdoing at all to make sure that they are reunited. temporarily at least they ll stop taking kids from parents but this idea to build out 20,000 beds for additional days and months and maybe years of detention shows that this administration, the president admitted it today is using these punitive traumatic measures to try to deter essentially lawful asylum seeking on the part of people leaving the most dangerous countries in the world and one thing i ve got to tell you, by cbp s own admission, family unit apprehension is down 4% to date this year over last year. unaccompanied alien children is up only 3% over this same time last year. so insofar as we have a crisis. wait a second, wait a second. the administration is making the crisis. the numbers are down year over year? if you look at fy-18, may
the right request and over what period of time is necessary to meet, just as we ve done in katrina and just as we did with sandy, try to meet the needs of the federal responsibility working with our state and local partners. all right. does that include offsets? we have to wait and see what the appropriations yes, thanks, peter. we have to wait and see what our appropriations committee leadership, when we get back to the city next week, recommend on how to finance and fund that project those projects for fy-18. alex, can i say something. last word to you. sure. you mentioned betsy devos. so i ve done some research and looked at the research coming out of new orleans and what happened in the aftermath of hurricane katrina from an education standpoint. this was a clean slate. there was a startover, a reset button. charter schools were able to compete. and it wasn t the studies show that four out of five charters that applied to get a charter school out of new orleans we
we had no hearings on the health care bill that the republicans are considering. let s work together. we ve worked together on on the fy-17 budget. we want to improve the affordable care act, not repeal it, and there are ways we can do that by bringing down overall health care costs and making particularly in the individual marketplace health insurance more affordable. on the budget issues, we have members of the authorizing committees on both the democratic and republican side, the environmental public works committee we ll be passing out some authorization bills that deal with the budget. we need to deal with a realistic budget for fy-18 that reflects the progress we made in fy-17 working together. if we do that, it s going to be in the best interests of the american people. we can improve the health care system, we can get a reasonable budget and move this country forward. chris: gentlemen, we re going of to close on that optimistic note. thank you both. thanks for coming in today.