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Fox News
3 days ago
- General
- Fox News
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 no longer operating any "soft-sided" facilities, following the closure of a migrant processing center near San Diego in March. The Biden administration used the facilities to process migrants who entered the country illegally at multiple sites in California, Texas, and Arizona, amid a surge of millions crossing the border. "Due to the unprecedented drop in apprehensions of illegal aliens as a result of the President's recent executive actions, CBP is not operating any temporary, soft-sided processing facilities where illegal aliens have been held in specific locations along the southwest border. CBP no longer has a need for them as illegal aliens are being quickly removed," a CBP spokesperson confirmed to Fox News Digital on Thursday. "The U.S. Border Patrol has full capability to manage the detention of apprehended aliens in USBP's permanent facilities. Manpower and other resources dedicated to temporary processing facilities will be redirected toward other priorities and will speed CBP's progress in gaining operational control over the southwest border," the spokesperson said. On March 13, CBP said that they were closing three Texas and two Arizona facilities, but one California and one Texas location were still open. In March, Fox News Digital reported that CBP had shuttered the Otay Mesa facility that was launched in January 2023 as the border crisis raged on. U.S. Border Patrol's San Diego Sector posted a video to X on Sunday showing that the sector's soft-sided facility has been decommissioned. "The world has heard President Trump and Secretary Noem's message. America's borders are CLOSED to lawbreakers," Homeland Security posted in response to the clip. According to CBP, the facilities cost taxpayers between $5 million and $30 million per month. Since President Donald Trump took office, southern border crossings marked by CBP have gone down. In April, there were just over 8,300 "apprehensions," which is a 93% drop from the year before, the agency said. "For the first time in years, more agents are back in the field—patrolling territories that CBP didn't have the bandwidth or manpower to oversee just six months ago," Pete Flores, Acting Commissioner of CBP, said in a statement on May 12. "But thanks to this administration's dramatic shift in security posture at our border, we are now seeing operational control becoming a reality—and it's only just beginning."
Daily Mail
6 days ago
- General
- Daily Mail
San Diego migrant processing center shuts down
The Trump administration has shut down a migrant processing center in San Diego after an 'unprecedented decrease' in illegal border crossings. US Border Patrol decommissioned the massive 1,000-person facility over the weekend after recording a 96 per cent decline in illegal crossings, the White House revealed Tuesday. President Trump has vowed to deport record numbers of immigrants who are in the US illegally , but has complained that courts and existing laws have slowed the effort. The White House, in its statement Tuesday confirming the San Deigo center's closure, highlighted the Administration's weekend arrests of 'sick criminal illegal immigrants' in the US. Among those arrested last weekend were convicted rapists, alleged child sexual offenders, drug dealers, violent offenders and known gang members. Federal immigration officials arrested dozens of migrants following immigration court hearings across the US last week. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers detained migrants at courthouses in New York City , Phoenix, Los Angeles and Seattle, according to family members, attorneys and news reports. In at least some of the arrests, immigration judges had just dropped active cases against migrants, family members and advocates said. The move could potentially allow US authorities to put them in a fast-track deportation process known as expedited removal . ICE guidance issued earlier this year directed officers to consider all immigrants previously released for expedited removal if they had not affirmatively applied for asylum. The operation showcases a new strategy to speed up deportations and bypass lengthier immigration processes. A senior Department of Homeland Security official said the effort aimed to deport immigrants allowed to enter the US under former President Biden. 'ICE is now following the law and placing these illegal aliens in expedited removal, as they always should have been,' the official said in a statement. It comes as Trump is locked in a series of court battles with federal judges who have repeatedly imposed temporary restraining orders to freeze potentially unconstitutional actions , pending further rulings. One of the key cases being contested revolves around court injunctions stopping the use by Trump of an obscure wartime law to deport alleged illegal migrants or alleged foreign criminals without any due process. But the president, as he marked Memorial Day on Monday, tore into his 'scum' opponents and the judges who don't rule in his favor in a lengthy, all-caps tirade on his Truth Social platform. He began by declaring: 'HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE SCUM THAT SPENT THE LAST FOUR YEARS TRYING TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY.' The post claimed that 'warped radical left minds' had allowed in millions of illegal immigrants, 'many of them being criminals and the mentally insane.' As well as blaming his political predecessors, Trump accused 'USA hating' judges of being 'on a mission to keep murderers, drug dealers, [sexual offenders], gang members, and released prisoners from all over the world, in our country so they can rob, murder and [sexually assault] again.'
Daily Mail
15-05-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Home Office blows over £60,000 on TVs with satellite channels, Nintendos, PlayStations and other entertainment at Manston migrant processing centre
The Home Office has spent more than £60,000 on entertainment for people detained at the Manston migrant processing centre, including on TVs, PlayStations and Nintendos, it was revealed today. The money purchased TVs with satellite channels, Xboxes and other gaming consoles, as well as newspaper and magazine subscriptions. It comes in the same week that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer toughened up on immigration, giving a speech in which he pledged to drastically reduce net migration to avoid the UK becoming an 'island of strangers'. The Manston facility in Kent typically only holds migrants for up to 48 hours, before they are moved into more suitable accommodation while any asylum claims. The figure comes from a Freedom of Information request concerning the centre, reported by GB News. According to the data, the Home Office spent almost £12,000 on TVs for the Manston over the last three years. The Home Office also spent more than £15,000 on video game consoles, including PlayStations, Nintendos and Xboxes. According to GB News, when combined with newspaper and magazine subscriptions it means some £60,000 has been spent on entertainment for the centre in the last three years. Former Chief Executive of Border Force, Tony Smith, commented: 'In my day, illegal entrants were detained and wherever possible put into a fast-track asylum system with a focus on rapid processing and removal. 'Nowadays migrants know that it's highly unlikely you will ever get removed if you come by boat, and our asylum support system will look after you in a way that's a far cry from the tents of Calais. 'I'm afraid that this simply fuels the pull factor and the smuggling pipeline into the UK, and it will do nothing to achieve the reduction in the arrival numbers that most people want to see.' It comes just days after the Prime Minister insisted in a major speech that he had long believed in wanting to limit the number of new arrivals to Britain and booting out foreign criminals. He warned the country risks becoming an 'island of strangers' and that high migration numbers had caused 'incalculable damage' to public services, housing and the economy. The Government's long-awaited White Paper promised to curb the power of judges to block deportations and to reduce immigration to Britain by 98,000 a year. Under the blueprint, skills thresholds will be hiked and rules on fluency in English toughened. Migrants will also be required to wait 10 years for citizenship rather than the current five, and face deportation for even lower-level crimes. Graduate visas will be reduced to 18 months, and a new levy introduced on income that universities generate from international students. Requirements that sponsoring institutions must meet in order to recruit international students are also being tightened. The Home Office has been contacted for comment.
