The decline in traditional Mexican border crossers coming to the United States for better jobs has been accompanied by a rise in Central Americans — mostly from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras — arriving at the border to request asylum protection. Over the past several years, apprehensions of non-Mexicans at the border, mostly from Central America, have met or exceeded apprehensions of Mexicans. The number of asylum requests from those arriving at the border has also soared in recent years, from just 22,000 in 2011 to 140,000 by 2015. Arrests of unaccompanied minors and family units have fluctuated, hitting nearly 140,000 in FY 2014, falling to 80,000 in FY 2015, and rising again to nearly 140,000 in FY 2016, but they have been consistently far higher than they were a decade ago (CBP 2016b).