Swelling Numbers Of Migrants Overwhelm Southern Border Crossings

LAS CRUCES, NM - MAY 16: Guatemalan asylum seekers, a father and son, prepare to board a bus to meet their sponsors in Las Vegas after leaving a shelter for migrants who seek asylum on May 16, 2019 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. After being released by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the shelter, asylum-seekers are then normally transferred from the shelter to their U.S. sponsors as they await their asylum requests. Approximately 1,000 migrants per day are being released by authorities in the El Paso sector of the U.S.-Mexico border, which includes Las Cruces. Las Cruces has processed over 5,000 asylum seekers since it began receiving them from the Border Patrol on April 12. President Trump presented a new immigration plan in a White House Rose Garden speech today. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)