CBP consistently evaluates operational requirements to determine if additional temporary facilities will be needed. The new facility, with a capacity of 1,000, replaces a smaller structure opened in Eagle Pass, in April 2021.
Agents apprehended a Mexican migrant convicted and sentenced to 13 years in prison in 2005 for aggravated sexual assault of a child in Texas. That same day, Kingsville Border Patrol Station agents apprehended a Honduran national with a 2013 arrest in Maryland for child abuse and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
The group was comprised of 118 single adults, 94 family members, and 31 unaccompanied children from Cuba and various Central and South American countries.