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In response to the surge of migrants crossing the border in El Paso, the US Customs and Border Protection is erecting a soft tent to increase migrant processing capacity by about 1,000, according to US Customs and Border Protection spokesman Landon Hutchens.
“The facility will be used by the El Paso Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol to provide additional migrant processing capacity, with the ability to hold approximately 1,000 migrants while they are processed in accordance with U.S. immigration law,” Hutchens said in a note.
The plant should be operational in January.
In anticipation of the possible revocation of Title 42, the Department of Homeland Security announced it would add 10 soft-side structures to increase its processing capacity. The installation that goes up in El Paso is one of those installations.
“This is part of the agency’s response efforts regarding increased migrant encounters in the El Paso area, as well as increasing additional staffing and funding for local partners,” Hutchens added.
“The addition of temporary processing facilities like this increases CBP’s ability to safely detain non-citizens and put them through immigration processing. »
Title 42 was put in place by the Center for Disease Control at the start of the coronavirus pandemic as part of a public health bid to curb the spread of Covid-19, but advocates say it has been used to stop the immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The controversial order was due to close on Dec. 21, but remains in limbo after the Supreme Court on Wednesday issued an order allowing the policy to remain in effect while legal disputes unfold, a process that could go wrong and stretch out for at least several months.
The city of El Paso is struggling to handle the daily influx of migrants crossing the border.
Two vacant schools in the city are being prepared to take in the migrants, Deputy City Director Mario D’Agostino said Tuesday.
Shelters have been set up in hotels and some parishes have volunteered to house the migrants, he said. About 1,000 beds have been set up at the El Paso Convention Center, which welcomed more than 480 overnight migrants on Christmas Eve and about 420 on Christmas Day, city spokeswoman Laura Cruz-Acosta confirmed to CNN. .
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