U.S. Customs and Border Protection contractors are erecting soft-sided detention centers to expand migrant processing capabilities in the nation’s busiest border sector.
Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 106,000 migrants during the first two months of the new fiscal year.
El Paso Sector officials report the agency is building a soft-sided facility on land acquired by the Department of Homeland Security on Highway 54 in El Paso. The facility is expected to increase the sector’s migrant processing capabilities and will be able to hold an additional 1,000 migrants while they are being processed for release or return under immigration laws.
‘The addition of temporary processing facilities such as this one increases CBP’s capacity to safely take noncitizens into custody and place them into immigration proceedings,” CBP officials said in a written statement provided to Breitbart Texas on Thursday. “This is part of the agency’s response efforts regarding increased migrant encounters in the El Paso area, along with surging additional personnel and providing funding to local partners.
The current centralized processing center in El Paso is meant to hold about 3,000 migrants, Breitbart Texason December 12. At that time, the processing center was well above capacity as it held more than 5,000 migrants. Border Patrol officials released increasing numbers of migrants to NGOs and onto the streets of El Paso. The action overwhelmed local shelters and city officials as the number of weekly releases of migrants into El Paso
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