Thread: The government is set to build a massive, $192 million facility in El Paso to proces

The government is set to build a massive, $192 million facility in El Paso to process migrant families, in the wake of 2 children's deaths in Border Patrol custody

Michelle Mark
21 hrs ago

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The Customs and Border Protection agency will soon be authorized to build a huge processing facility in El Paso, Texas that would be better equipped to hold migrant families.

In the bipartisan spending bill that President Donald Trump was set to sign on Friday, Congress allocated $192 million for the processing center.
Lawmakers explicitly said the facility must be outfitted with appropriate temperature controls, and must avoid the "chain-link fence-type enclosures" that have been criticized as "cages" in the past.

© Customs and Border Protection via Associated Press

The government's current facilities aren't equipped to process the families now crossing the border The news comes in the wake of the deaths of two migrant children in Border Patrol custody late last year. Immigration advocates and healthcare experts seized on the tiny cells inside holding facilities that migrants are usually detained in after their arrests as part of the reason they died.
The cramped facilities have long been criticized for freezing temperatures, overcrowding, and unhygienic conditions, and Trump administration officials have conceded that they were not designed to accommodate children.
Since the deaths of seven-year-old Jakelin Caal Maquin and eight-year-old Felipe Gomez Alonzo, Democrats and immigration rights advocates have been demanding improved facilities at the border to accommodate the surge of migrant families seeking asylum in the US each month.

© Reuters/Jose Luis Gonzalez; Catarina Gomez via Associated Press

Rep. Veronica Escobar, a Texas Democrat, told The Washington Post on Thursday that CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan discussed plans for a new facility with her last week that's designed to hold up to 800 migrants at a time.
"It's long overdue," Escobar told The Post.
CBP did not immediately respond to INSIDER's request for comment.
Congress' statement about the bill said lawmakers "expect the new El Paso facility and renovations to the existing processing center in McAllen, Texas, will make them more appropriate for use as temporary holding sites for individuals in CBP custody, particularly families and unaccompanied children."
Though border-crossing arrests remain at historic lows, the demographics of the migrants who are crossing has dramatically changed in recent years, posing new challenges for the agents who detain and process them.
Rather than the single adults who used to cross, Border Patrol has been encountering more and more Central American families with young children, who are uniquely vulnerable in custody.
"The government has known for almost five years that there are fewer and fewer Mexican single males coming across our border and more and more Central American families and unaccompanied minors fleeing Central America," Escobar told The Post.

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We need to get protesters down their to STOP building this massive, EXPENSIVE, facility with our taxpayer dollars!

They have no right to come here and need to be processed and bused back home!

We already give these countries billions of our dollars...send them ALL back including their UAC's!

That $192 MILLION should be paying for our homeless, our veteran's, our senior's, our children!

SEND THIS MASSIVE ARMY OF ILLEGAL ALIENS BACK HOME...THIS IS A DOWNRIGHT INVASION THAT IS PLANNED OUT, BOUGHT AND PAID FOR BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES UNDERMINING OUR LAWS, OUR SAFETY AND OUR SECURITY!


"IT IS LONG OVERDUE" TO PROCESS THEM AND DEPORT THEM ON THE SPOT!

NO FACILITIES...SEND THEM HOME!

Mexico to close massive migrant facility on the Texas border

MEXICO LET THEM IN AND MEXICO CAN DAMN WELL KEEP THEM ALL!

NO SHELTERS IN U.S.
NO ASYLUM
NO ANCHOR BABY
NO MEDICAL CARE
NO SCHOOL
NO LAWYERS


SEND BUSES TO TRANSPORT THEM BACK HOME NOW!