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US Customs and Border Protection agents are setting up a massive tent structure which they’ll use to process an overflow of illegal aliens in the event Title 42 is overturned.
EL PASO, Texas — In the middle of the West Texas desert, a giant tent — bigger than a football field — is being thrown up by the US Border Patrol as El Paso prepares for a human tidal wave to cross the borderhttps://t.co/kEDy6t8OI7
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The giant tent, reportedly larger than a football field, is located in El Paso, Texas, northeast of downtown and will serve as an additional temporary facility to aid with the influx of illegal crossers now reaching crisis-level proportions, with a permanent facility to follow.
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The Border Patrol already has a Central Processing Center in El Paso, but it will not be able to meet the demand post-Title 42 – when as many as 5,000 migrants per day are anticipated to enter the city.
“It’s still going to get worse before it even gets better, and that’s what we’re preparing for,” El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser said Friday. “That’s what I call the unknown.”
“As we know [Border Patrol’s] CPC, central processing center, has a capacity of 1,400; we know that their breaking point is 5,000,” El Paso Deputy City Manager Mario D’Agostino said at a public meeting the same day. “With this surge, they know that they will not be able to hold it.”
El Paso officials have previously said as many as 20,000 migrants are waiting in Mexico, hoping to gain entry into the US after Title 42 goes away.
Meanwhile, the Texas National Guard deployed by Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has installed two miles of fencing and concertina wire along the border in El Paso to deter illegal crossings, in addition to shipping containers that serve as a makeshift border wall.
Title 42, the Trump-era Covid pandemic border restriction that allowed for speedy deportation of illegal immigrants hailing from certain nations, was set to end last week before the Supreme Court stepped in at the behest of 19 states’ attorneys general.
NewsNation reports: “The Biden administration said it is time for Title 42 to end, and it is targeting Dec. 27 as the end date, with two extra days of restrictions in place to allow for adjustment to the shift in policy. That’s up to the Supreme Court, which temporarily halted the policy’s end last week.”