CBP Closing Temporary Processing Facilities for Illegal Immigrants

Arrests averaged around 330 per day last month, ’the lowest nationwide average apprehensions in CBP history,' the agency said.

Children ages 3 to 9 at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, in Donna, Texas, on March 30, 2021. Dario Lopez-Mills/Pool/AFP/Getty Images

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is shutting down some of the facilities that housed illegal immigrants, potentially saving the agency millions of dollars.

“Illegal border crossings have plummeted, leading to the closure of several temporary processing facilities along the southwest border,” the CBP said in a March 14 post on social media platform X.