Border watch: It’s Getting Worse

“The Border Patrol reported the most action in 21 years in June,” reports Stephen Dinan at The Washington Times. “Agents recorded 178,416 arrests, defying Homeland Security officials’ public predictions that activity at the border would cool off in the summer.” That includes a renewed “surge of illegal immigrant children,” such that “the Border Patrol had more than 1,400 in its custody as of Sunday night, the highest number in nearly three months.” Plus: “Deaths of migrants are up,” despite “a record-setting year of Border Patrol rescues,” while “seizures of the dangerous synthetic opioid fentanyl have set a record,” and “experts say the seizure number indicates that the amount of drugs getting through the border is also up.”