Customs and Border Protection Paid $66 Million for Temporary Detainment Center That Was 99% Empty

[libertybele]

   Think of how much wall could  have been built!

Customs and Border Protection Paid $66 Million for Temporary Detainment Center That Was 99% Empty

S. Customs and Border Protection spent $66 million to build and operate a temporary detainment center in Tornillo, Texas—that opened last August and closed this January—where it kept, on average, 1 percent of the facility's capacity in detainees, according to the Government Accountability Office.

In other words, the $66-million facility that operated for approximately five months was generally 99-percent empty.

“During the 5-month period the Tornillo facility was open, the CBP paid approximately $66 million in total for the facility services and leveraged significant federal personnel resources (both CBP and otherwise), despite holding an average of 30 detainees per day—or about 1 percent of the facility's capacity,” says a report that the GAO provided to members of Congress.

https://www.cnsnews.com/index.php/article/washington/terence-p-jeffrey/customs-and-border-protection-paid-66-million-temporary

[sneakypete]

The questions that need to be answered are "Who cashed the checks,and who approved the facility being built?"

[Smokin Joe]

The questions that need to be answered are "Who cashed the checks,and who approved the facility being built?"

Is the wall built there already?
If not...
Can the facility be adapted for work crews' housing?

[sneakypete]

Is the wall built there already?
If not...
Can the facility be adapted for work crews' housing?

@Smokin Joe

I don't know,but EXCELLENT questions!

I am eaten alive with envy that I didn't think of asking them.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

I guess when you're the number 1 infected country in the world nobody is anxious to immigrate, trespass or even visit.  Now would be a hilarious time to declare a ban on immigration then declare how effective you were.

[Smokin Joe]

I guess when you're the number 1 infected country in the world nobody is anxious to immigrate, trespass or even visit.  Now would be a hilarious time to declare a ban on immigration then declare how effective you were.

We don't have to do that, just claim the border counties are the most infected.
If the CHinese can lie like rugs about the virus, why not do the same, only to OUR advantage?

[PeteS in CA]

The time when it was planned and building begun was probably during the waves of illegals bused up from Honduras (and Guatemala?). As it turned out, other measures to, umm, discourage mass illegal entries broke the waves (for now). But consider what would have happened - and the howls of politicization - had the waves continued and this facility not been there.

[Smokin Joe]

The time when it was planned and building begun was probably during the waves of illegals bused up from Honduras (and Guatemala?). As it turned out, other measures to, umm, discourage mass illegal entries broke the waves (for now). But consider what would have happened - and the howls of politicization - had the waves continued and this facility not been there.

Right. Because we can house prison inmates in the desert in tents, but not illegal invaders.