U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed to Fox News Digital News that no “gentle-face” facility is no longer working, after the closure of a migrant processing center near San Diego in March.
The Biden administration used the facilities to process migrants that entered the country illegally in various places in California, Texas and Arizona, in the midst of an increase of millions that crossed the border.
“Due to the unprecedented fall of the Aprehensions of the illegal aliens as a result of the recent executive actions of the President, CBP does not operate any temporary processing installation on the gentle face where illegal foreigners have remained in specific places along the southwest border. CBP no longer need for them, as they were quickly eliminated,” confirmed the Sparkesperson to Fox News. Digital digital digital.
The CBP says
An aerial view of the Otay Mesa installation in January 2023. (Office of Public Protection Affairs of the United States and Border Protection.)
“ The U.S. border patrol has the capacity to manage the arrest of aliens captured in the permanent facilities of the USBP. The labor and other resources dedicated to the temporary processing facilities will be redirected to other priorities and will accelerate the CBP’s progress by obtaining operational control over the southern border, ” said the spokesman.
On March 13, CBP said that three Texas and two Arizona facilities closed, but a California and one Texas location were still open.
In March, Fox News Digital reported that CBP had closed the Otay Mesa facility, which was launched in January 2023 when the border crisis incorporated.
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A United States border patrol agent is on a truck on a road outside a ranch door near Carrizzo Springs, Texas. (Eddie Seal/Bloomberg through Getty Images)
The San Diego sector of the United States Border Patrol posted a video on X on Sunday, showing that the soft face facility in the sector has been deactivated.
“The world has heard the message of President Trump and the message of Secretary Noem. United States borders are closed to Lawbreakers,” the National Security published in response to the clip.
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According to CBP, facilities cost taxpayers between $ 5 and 30 million per month.
Since President Donald Trump took office, CBP -marked southern border crosses have dropped. In April, there were just over 8,300 “Aprehensions”, which is a 93% fall over the previous year, the agency said.
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USA PATROPS PATROPS PATROPS PATROPS, SOLDAR AND INSTALLATION AT AL L’A LA AREA BORTERERA OF THE United States-Mexico Tijuana-San Diego, as seen from Playas de Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, since the Department of Defense deployed active service troops to the border to work next to the United States border and made the border on Tuesday 25th on Tuesday. March 2025. Moreno/Anadolu through Getty Images) (Carlos Moreno/Anadolu through Getty Images)
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“For the first time in years, more agents are back in the field: the territories that CBP did not have the width of the band or the labor force to supervise only six months ago,” said Pete Flores, a CBP curator, said in a statement on May 12. “But thanks to the dramatic change of this security stance on our border, we now see operating control that becomes reality, and it is just as a beginning.”
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