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GAO: Border Patrol needlessly spent $12M at Texas facility

by Associated Press
| April 10, 2020 3:03 PM

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection needlessly spent around $12 million last year to guard, house and feed as many as 2,500 people in a private detention center in Texas that never held more than 68 detainees on any given day, according to a report from a congressional watchdog.

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