Migrant Protection Protocols<\/a> were halted because of litigation or lack of cooperation by the Mexican government, more capacity would be needed quickly. <\/p>\n\n\n\nThough CBP eventually scaled back some of its\nspending on Tornillo, GAO dinged the agency for paying \u201cmillions of dollars for food\nservice it did not need and allocat[ing]personnel resources that, as Border\nPatrol El Paso sector officials noted, could have been allocated to other\nmissions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
GAO\ncould have gone one step further by asking the parent agency overseeing all\nthis: Why didn\u2019t the Department of Homeland Security\nturn Tornillo over to ICE, if CBP couldn’t fill the beds? Alas that line of\ninquiry didn\u2019t come up in GAO\u2019s 15-page report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As it\nclosed Tornillo on Jan. 3, CBP said it had learned lessons there, and pledged\nto do better. Let\u2019s hope so. Any way you figure it, bilking U.S. taxpayers and\nsquandering border-enforcement resources is a double debacle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Did U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) overspend on a temporary detention center outside El Paso? The Government Accountability Office (GAO) thinks so. A GAO investigation found that the Tornillo facility designed to house 2,500 adult detainees held no more than 68 at any given time. It averaged just 38 per day, during barely six<\/p>\n
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