AdvertisementMigrants are showing up at the U.S. southern border in historic numbers. Here's whyPlay03:31Download AudioNovember 12, 2023Jasmine GarsdfacebookEmailA migrant family shows their paperwork to Mexican immigration officials to proceed with their CBP One asylum appointments at the Chaparral pedestrian border in Tijuana, Mexico, to cross to the U.S. on Thursday. (Carlos A. Moreno for NPR)