The US is spending $37 million on two new tent cities for detained immigrant children and families
By Justin Rohrlich
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is at a “breaking point†as it faces an “unprecedented humanitarian and border security crisis,†Brian Hastings, CBP’s chief of law enforcement operations, said recently. In February the agency apprehended 76,000 people at the southern border, including 36,000 traveling with family members—the highest number in 12 years. CBP expects to make 150,000 arrests at the southern border in April.
CBP says its existing facilities weren’t built to accommodate this many people. Detention centers in the El Paso area are reportedly at operating at triple or even quadruple their maximum capacity, and the agency was pilloried for temporarily housing thousands of migrants, including children, in a holding pen underneath a bridge in near-freezing temperatures. The detainees were later moved to indoor facilities at local shelters and a nearby US Border Patrol station.
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