CBP shutters San Diego-area processing facility after 'unprecedented drop in apprehensions'

U.S. Customs and Border Protection unopen down a migrant processing installation adjacent San Diego, Calif., pursuing an "unprecedented driblet successful apprehensions." 

The impermanent installation successful Otay Mesa, which opened successful January 2023, had a capableness of astir 500 with a superior intent to "safely and expeditiously process individuals successful U.S. Border Patrol custody," according to CBP. 

"Due to the unprecedented driblet successful apprehensions of amerciable aliens arsenic a effect of the President’s caller enforcement actions, CBP is reducing the fig of temporary, soft-sided processing facilities wherever amerciable aliens person been held successful circumstantial locations on the southwest border," Hilton Beckham, the CBP’s Assistant Commissioner of Public Affairs, told Fox News connected Thursday. 

"CBP precocious closed soft-sided processing facilities successful Texas and Arizona, and CBP has present closed yet different soft-sided processing installation successful San Diego," helium added. "The U.S. Border Patrol has afloat capableness to negociate the detention of apprehended aliens successful USBP’s imperishable facilities.  

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A soft-sided detention installation successful Otay Mesa, Calif., is prepared for teardown connected March 19. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Public Affairs)

"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," Beckham besides said. 

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

At the clip of its opening, the CBP said the Otay Mesa installation was "weatherproof" and "climate-controlled" and was "expected to supply ample areas for eating, sleeping, and idiosyncratic hygiene." 

"The impermanent 130,786-square-foot installation volition supply further processing capableness for Border Patrol’s San Diego Sector," it added. 

The installation astatine Otay Mesa, Calif., opened successful January 2023. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Public Affairs)

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However, connected Wednesday, images showed workers dismantling the site.