1. What about ?
   1. Number have rise in recent weeks
   2. Hundreads of children and women, each day
   3. Mexican banks of the river
   4. Crossing in rafts
2. Raul L. Ortiz
   1. Chief of the Border Patrol
   2. "The numbers have started going the other way"
   3. Over the same period last year
      1. Families + than 150%
      2. Unaccompanied children more than doubled
3. Problem
   1. Border security
   2. People are scared about terrorism
   3. Attack in Paris
4. Mix of factors
   1. Women and children
   2. Fleeing vicious gangs and endemic sexual violence
   3. Rather than hiding from Border Patrol
   4. Better to ask for protection
5. Border officials
   1. Reductions of migrant women with children --> impact
   2. Department of Homeland Security
      1. Dissuasive message to Central America
      2. Releasing women and children in three weeks or less
      3. Sending them to pursue claims for asylum