By Leon Fresco (May 30, 2018, 4:08 PM EDT) -- As of the writing of this article, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is reporting a 223 percent increase in border apprehensions from the same period last year. Numbers of unaccompanied minors and family units being apprehended are already approaching the highest points recorded during the Obama administration, and President Donald Trump himself is calling for a shutdown of the government in September unless unspecified border security measures are passed by Congress. In response to these increased arrivals at the border, the administration has responded by instituting a policy of prosecuting all border crossers and separating parents from their children, thereby turning the children arriving as family units into new unaccompanied minors....