63K young illegals captured, er, Obama embraced at border in past 9 months

** FILE ** A group of illegal immigrants from Honduras and El Salvador who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally as they are stopped in Granjeno, Texas, June 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) The Department of Homeland Security said Thursday that roughly 63,000 illegal immigrant youths were captured along the Southwest border within the last nine months.

The number of lone children spiked in May and June, but DHS said that numbers have fallen off since last month.