The Border Patrol has reopened the South Texas facility that was criticized for holding “kids in cages” during former President Donald Trump's tenure, debuting a renovation that has replaced wire fences with brick walls and glass.
The Central Processing Center in McAllen, Texas, was closed in November 2020 to undergo major renovations following two years of protests over the government's handling of unaccompanied children and adults who illegally came across the border from Mexico. The purpose of the facility remains as it was — to detain and process those apprehended at the border within 72 hours of their arrival.
The building was set up eight years ago as the go-to facility in the region to detain people in custody, the Washington Examiner learned during a tour of the CPC in June 2018. As thousands of minors showed up at the border in the Rio Grande Valley in late spring 2014, the Border Patrol was unable to process quickly as many children coming into custody or temporarily house them in its nine stations across the region, which can only hold 50-200 people.
"My concern is that any time people have been detained by CBP or ICE, detained individuals, their attorneys, and advocates have reported medical neglect, severe barriers to due process and language access, inhumane conditions, harassment, and abuse," Murdza wrote in an email, adding that her organization filed a complaint over this issue in 2019.
Images circled on social media of children in the fenced-in rooms and the facility was dubbed online as being home to “kids in cages,” causing a major blowback for Trump. The Trump administration discontinued the family separations in mid-2018. When someone was brought in from the border before the CPC was remodeled, his or her personal items were collected and stored until the person was either transferred to a different agency such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement, removed from the country, or released into the United States. Then, depending on whether he or she is a lone adult or part of a family, they would be directed to one of the two large holding warehouses.
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