Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has something to say to people contemplating illegal migration to the United States: "We'll send you back." Deportations will begin this week, he said. It's a message the Obama administration wants to amplify more loudly now that it is wrestling with a huge influx of minors crossing the southern border --  57,000 in the past nine months. They're from troubled Central American countries and a lot are unaccompanied and many of those are young children. It's all overwhelming already stressed immigration services as more and more kids find themselves caught in a bureaucratic limbo and a political firestorm.
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Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson visits southern border in New Mexico
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The administration wants to amplify its message that illegal arrivals are mostly going back
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The stepped up effort comes amid an influx of undocumented minors from Central America
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New arrivals have overwhelmed border services and ignited new political controversy
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