Is that for asylum seekers? Do you have the main link for the article that is included with? The graph I posted and linked via an article is about asylum seekers and the percentages of the total by year from 2000 through 2016 IIRC.
Humans who have the choice to stay to try for asylum or go. If they choose to try the asylum route then they have to be vetted and processed since 50% won't be accepted and separated since 20-30% are bringing in children, potentially trafficking, not related to the adult traveling with them.
The numbers are increasing within the last year or so. Mexico must be a real shit-hole if these human people would knowingly choose a death camp concentration facility, albeit with free food, medical, housing, over staying put there while they wait on the hundreds of thousands of cases in front of them.
Personally I'd rather pay more for avocados and have less burden on the border communities and elsewhere where the asylum seekers are dropped off after acceptance of their lottery plight. A plight that costs the taxpayers on average $75K+ per refugee for their first five years of care/support/welfare/transfer payments. Come if you can pay your own way, fuck this shit:
https://www.fairus.org/issue/legal-immigration/fiscal-cost-resettling-refugees-united-states
We don't owe these people, these humans, $75K+ per person(over their first five years per person on average). We don't, or shouldn't.
But I'm the bad guy for thinking that. It doesn't say on the statue of liberty that we should pay their way after they get here, but apparently we are. And that is why they are streaming into the country. Why some, many, more if they knew how much it was costing us, are against it.