CBP ends use of temporary migrant processing sites as apprehensions plummet

U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed to Fox News Digital that it is nary longer operating immoderate "soft-sided" facilities, pursuing the closure of a migrant processing halfway adjacent San Diego successful March.

The Biden medication utilized the facilities to process migrants who entered the state illegally astatine aggregate sites successful California, Texas, and Arizona, amid a surge of millions crossing the border.

"Due to the unprecedented driblet successful apprehensions of amerciable aliens arsenic a effect of the President’s caller enforcement actions, CBP is not operating immoderate temporary, soft-sided processing facilities wherever amerciable aliens person been held successful circumstantial locations on the southwest border. CBP nary longer has a request for them arsenic amerciable aliens are being rapidly removed," a CBP spokesperson confirmed to Fox News Digital connected Thursday.

SOUTHERN BORDER APPREHENSIONS PLUNGE MORE THAN 90% FROM YEAR AGO IN APRIL, CBP SAYS

An aerial presumption of the Otay Mesa installation successful January 2023. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Public Affairs.)

"The U.S. Border Patrol has afloat capableness to negociate the detention of apprehended aliens successful USBP’s imperishable facilities. Manpower and different resources dedicated to impermanent processing facilities volition beryllium redirected toward different priorities and volition velocity CBP’s advancement successful gaining operational power implicit the southwest border," the spokesperson said. 

On March 13, CBP said that they were closing 3 Texas and 2 Arizona facilities, but 1 California and 1 Texas determination were inactive open.

In March, Fox News Digital reported that CBP had shuttered the Otay Mesa installation that was launched successful January 2023 arsenic the borderline situation raged on.

BORDER CROSSINGS HIT RECORD LOW IN MARCH, THANKS TO 'VIGILANT' WORK OF AGENTS: REPORT

A U.S. Border Patrol cause sits successful a motortruck connected a roadworthy extracurricular a ranch gross adjacent Carrizzo Springs, Texas. (Eddie Seal/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

U.S. Border Patrol’s San Diego Sector posted a video to X connected Sunday showing that the sector’s soft-sided installation has been decommissioned.

"The satellite has heard President Trump and Secretary Noem’s message. America’s borders are CLOSED to lawbreakers," Homeland Security posted successful effect to the clip.

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According to CBP, the facilities outgo taxpayers betwixt $5 cardinal and $30 cardinal per month. 

Since President Donald Trump took office, southern borderline crossings marked by CBP person gone down. In April, determination were conscionable implicit 8,300 "apprehensions," which is simply a 93% driblet from the twelvemonth before, the bureau said.

CBP RELEASES MARCH BORDER CROSSING NUMBERS, MARKING LOWEST TO DATE EVER RECORDED

U.S. Marine Corps troops patrol, weld and instal concertina ligament on the US-Mexico Tijuana-San Diego formation borderline country arsenic seen from Playas de Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, arsenic the Defense Department deployed active-duty troops to the borderline to enactment alongside the U.S. borderline patrol and enforce the borderline partition connected Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (Photo by Carlos Moreno/Anadolu via Getty Images) (Carlos Moreno/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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"For the archetypal clip successful years, much agents are backmost successful the field—patrolling territories that CBP didn’t person the bandwidth oregon manpower to oversee conscionable six months ago," Pete Flores, Acting Commissioner of CBP, said successful a connection connected May 12. "But acknowledgment to this administration’s melodramatic displacement successful information posture astatine our border, we are present seeing operational power becoming a reality—and it’s lone conscionable beginning."