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U.S. Border Patrol

The agency's new tent facility in Tornillo, Texas.

The United States Border Patrol has erected a temporary facility to manage the detention of several hundred people after a recent surge of migration in the El Paso region.

The enormous temporary tent is based at the Guadalupe port of entry east of El Paso. It can hold 500 people and was built to accommodate a surge of Central American immigrants at the southern border.

The temporary facility is one of several built this year in Texas to manage the migrants, the majority of whom are asking to stay in the U.S. Temporary facilities were built this year at two military bases as well.

The Border Patrol’s El Paso Sector had nearly 4,000 unaccompanied children this year, more than double the previous year.