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Who’s Really Crossing the U.S. Border, and Why They’re Coming

And many Central American migrants are female—many more than the Mexican migrants who came before them. While female Mexican migrants averaged around 13 percent of all Mexican migrants apprehended by the Border Patrol from FY1995 through FY2017, Central American women averaged between 20 and 32 percent. In recent years these numbers have increased even more, with women constituting 48 percent of all Salvadoran migrants in the last fiscal year and Honduran women reaching 43 percent of migrants from their country.

I had to look for a bit to find this. This is probably an inconvenient detail, which doesn't fit the correct left/right narrative.

Both political parties would probably prefer to sweep this under the rug.