Donald Trump has been accused of manufacturing the migrant crisis as it emerged arrests at the border over the long term have actually fallen.
Critics of the president said Trump has weaponized the migrant caravan to get support for the border wall through Congress.
The number of migrants arrested trying to cross the border remains far lower than in the early to mid-2000s, when Border Patrol agents regularly caught more than 100,000 individuals a month and in some months made over 200,000 arrests.
Official figures released on Tuesday show that in December 27,518 members of 'family units' were arrested and 60,782 migrants overall were detained at the US-Mexico border.
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President Donald Trump has been accused of manufacturing the migrant border crisis to gain support for a southern border wall
Migrants jumping the border fence to get into the U.S. side to San Diego, California. Figures show the number of illegal crossings in December was lower than in the early 2000s
Despite Trump claiming this week that the country is facing a 'humanitarian and security crisis at our southern border', figures show the number of migrant arrests in the early years of the 21st century were around four times higher.
Customs and Border Protection recorded the lowest level of illegal cross-border migration on record in the fiscal year 2016 to 2017, Forbes reports.
But the number of 'apprehensions and inadmissible encounters' in October to December last year were even lower than during the same period of 2016 to 2017.
Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, a Los Angeles-based immigrant rights organization, accused Trump of lying to the public over the 'crisis'.
She told USA Today: 'Manufacturing a crisis at the border, shutting down the government, lying in prime time to the American public and executing a power grab just to build a medieval, ineffective wall is too much.'
A two-year-old Honduran child with her mother after being detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents near the U.S.-Mexico border in McAllen, Texas in June last year
Cuban and Central American migrants queue at the Paso del Norte International Bridge in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua State, Mexico, to cross the border and request political asylum in the United States on Tuesday
President Trump has vowed to let the shutdown continue for 'whatever it takes' to get his border wall
One of the key changes to the demographics of those seeking entry to the U.S. is that the number of Mexican migrants crossing illegally has dropped dramatically - by around 90 per cent since 2000.
But the number of families and unaccompanied children coming from Central American countries has increased.
A record number of Central American migrant families illegally headed towards the United States was recorded for the fourth month running in December.
Trump said on Tuesday that the situation on the southern border was a national security threat.
He said went on to say the situation at the border is a 'humanitarian crisis, a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul'.
Official figures show 27,518 members of 'family units' were arrested while the crossing US border in December, a record high for the fourth month in a row
The Trump administration has claimed a humanitarian crisis on the southern border
Trump added: 'Last month, 20,000 migrant children were illegally brought into the United States – a dramatic increase. These children are used as human pawns by vicious coyotes and ruthless gangs.
'One in three women are sexually assaulted on the dangerous trek up through Mexico. Women and children are the biggest victims by far of our broken system.'
The president vowed to let the shutdown continue and allow 'whatever it takes' unfold so he can win support for his border wall.
While family crossings appear to be on the up illegal crossings in general remain low compared to the early to mid 2000s when there were months were more than 100,000 migrants were caught illegally at the border.
And the number of minors who arrived without a parent fell to 4,766, down 10 per cent.
The White House has requested $5.7 billion in new funding to continue the wall's construction.
Children playing with balloons in front of Federal Police outside an empty warehouse used as a shelter set up for migrants in downtown Tijuana, Mexico earlier this month
Noemi, 22, a Mexican migrant cries as she holds her daughter Emily, 1, before trying to jump the border fence to get into the U.S. side to San Diego, Calif., from Tijuana, Mexico last month
The conflict between Trump and congressional Democrats led to a partial shutdown of the federal government a few days before Christmas.
The Washington Post reports that the migration surge has slowed down in recent days with El Paso's largest migrant shelter receiving less than half the number of people it was helping at the end of last month.
On Wednesday morning the president tweeted that the nation 'is doing so well in so many ways. Great jobs numbers, with a record setting December. We are rebuilding our military. Vets finally have Choice & Accountability. Economy & GDP are strong. Tax & Reg cuts historic. Trade deals great.'
'But we MUST fix our Southern Border!'
In December two children died while in US border Patrol custody.
Young migrant girl Jakelin Caal Maquin, seven, died on December 8 in a hospital in El Paso, Texas, in the early hours of the morning.
Caal and her father, Nery Caal, were traveling with a group of 163 migrants who arrived at the New Mexico border from her home in northern Guatemala.
A Mexican migrant holds her baby as she is taken on custody by Border Patrol officers after they jumped the border fence last month
After they were taken into custody December 6, the father told a U.S. agent that the girl was sick and vomiting.
Felipe Gomez Alonzo, 8, from Guatemala, lost his life on Christmas Eve after being held at a detention center by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.l
His mother, Catarina Alonzo, 32, revealed she had allowed him to join his father Agustin Gomez, 47, on the journey through Mexico with the hopes of being granted asylum at the US border.
Felipe was transported to a local hospital after showing possible signs of influenza.
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