Katie Waldman, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, told The New York Times that there were 46 cases of fraudulent family claims in the 2017 fiscal year, which began in October 2016 and ended in September 2017. In just the first five months of the 2018 fiscal year, there were 191 cases — a 315 percent increase. But those instances of family fraud are a tiny fraction of the total number of families apprehended at the southwestern border: 0.06 percent of nearly 76,000 families in the 2017 fiscal year and 0.6 percent of 31,000 families apprehended in the first five months of the 2018 fiscal year. Further, Ms. Waldman said the department had only recently begun compiling family-fraud data, so a comparison with earlier administrations’ data would not yet be possible. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/us/politics/nielsen-family-separation-factcheck.html
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But those instances of family fraud are a tiny fraction of the total number of families apprehended at the southwestern border: 0.06 percent of nearly 76,000 families in the 2017 fiscal year and 0.6 percent of 31,000 families apprehended in the first five months of the 2018 fiscal year.
Further, Ms. Waldman said the department had only recently begun compiling family-fraud data, so a comparison with earlier administrations’ data would not yet be possible.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/us/politics/nielsen-family-separation-factcheck.html