Border Patrol Opens Another Illegal Alien Processing Center Because of Biden Surge
TUCSON, AZ U.S. Customs and Border Protection Thursday announced the opening of a soft-sided facility in Tucson, AZ. The facility’s primary purpose is to safely and expeditiously process illegal aliens in U.S. Border Patrol custody.
The facility will be weatherproof, climate-controlled, and is expected to provide ample areas for eating, sleeping, and personal hygiene. The new facility’s design is similar to that of recently constructed soft-sided facilities.
The over 80,000 square foot facility sits on six acres at 4550 East Los Reales Road in Tucson. The temporary facility will provide additional processing capacity for Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector.
The new year brings a number of new (and old) transportation projects to the region, including the continued widening of Broadway Boulevard between Country Club Road and downtown, long-planned improvements to Sabino Canyon Road and much-needed repairs to Oracle Road.
City of Tucson officials anticipate wrapping up the widening of Broadway Boulevard between Country Club Road and Euclid Avenue to three lanes in each direction in September 2021. The project, which will also include better bike lanes and sidewalks, is a partnership between Tucson, Pima County and Regional Transportation Authority.
The city will also continue work on the Downtown Links project. The new roadway is essentially the long-planned last mile of Aviation Highway, although it has been scaled back considerably from what was planned decades ago. Running alongside the Union Pacific Railroad tracks for most part, the roadway will stretch from the current end of Aviation at Broadway Boulevard to Sixth Street, with