Illegal migration at southern border remains a "crisis" despite slowdown, U.S. says

Arrests at or near the U.S. border with Mexico fell to their lowest monthly total of the year in September but the fiscal year total was up 88 percent, indicating illegal immigration remained a crisis, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.The number of apprehensions and people turned away at the border fell to 52,546 in September, less than half the peak of 144,116 in May but up 4 percent from September 2018.Migration tends to taper off during the hot summer months, but U.S. officials and immigrant ad