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.
