Depends on what the meaning of "year" is... CBP collects data for the FISCAL YEAR starting in October.. That's the way ALL their charts and graphs are presented... From start of Oct to end Nov of the following year...
That's why the 2018 stats from THEIR websites that I gave you showed a number OVER 500,000... And any org that wants to SLANT the conversation and lie with statistics in their favor has the option to manipulate those official charts and make the numbers smaller...
But WORSE THAN THAT little accounting gimmick is the fact that your phony "fact-checker" has a graph showing BARELY 400,000 for 2018.. Putting the whole GRAPH is deep doo-doo.... Use those phony ass partisan "fact-checkers'" at your own peril....
phony "fact-checker"
phony ass partisan "fact-checkers"
Look at the picture again:
Lo and behold, that's data for fiscal years, starting on the first of October and ending at 30th of September of the following year.
Now, as to those 400k apprehensions in 2018 - the fact check was
from June. That quite obviously means, the 2018 data weren't in yet in full because July, August and September had yet to happen.
You couldn't figure that out? But you sure are prepared to render judgement:
phony "fact-checker"
phony ass partisan "fact-checkers"
Turns out, you even had a hunch as to what happened to those 2018 numbers - "Or you just used an OLD source.... " - but you still couldn't stop yourself scolding those phony ass partisan fact-checkers for, in 2018, ignoring the 2019 data.
"So for FISCAL 2019 --- the numbers are on track to MEET OR EXCEED the all time highs in recent history... THAT'S the salient part of why there is an actual crisis... And of course, a phony fact checker would want to ignore all that.."
Whatever. Coyote's point stands. The U.S. dealt with far higher immigration numbers, and no, there were no concentration camps at the border to deal with them. Which, if you think about it, pretty conclusively demonstrates that this is currently an entirely manufactured crisis that serves no discernible purpose other than criminalizing migration and fanning the flames of xenophobia.
Sharing a border with the third world, while waging that phony war on drugs in relevant part on their backs, and after a long history of mass murderous and deleterious meddling into their affairs, a steady stream of migration should be expected, and there it is. And now, under that incompetent, ghoulish clown, the U.S. is shredding the last remainder of its decency and respect for humanity - because "invasion!"