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People held at an ICE tent facility in El Paso stayed an average of 4.5 days, well past the 72-hour limit it operated under, the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general said in a report released Monday. Inspectors also found unreported force, lost property, and missed showers.

CBP ran the El Paso Enhanced Hardened Facility as a temporary processing site from January 2023 to February 2025. ICE took it over on March 10, 2025, and kept CBP’s short-term custody rules, which say people generally should not be held more than 72 hours.

Inspectors reviewed 15,975 bookings from March 10 to Sept. 1, 2025. Of those, 6,951, or 44 percent, ran past 72 hours. About 17 percent lasted more than a week, and 100 lasted 29 days or more. On the first day of the inspection, the site held 642 people.

The site was built for short stays. Detainees slept on floor mats under aluminized polyester blankets. Long-term ICE facilities must issue a mattress, pillow, sheets, and a blanket. The tent had no on-site medical care and housed high- and low-risk detainees together.

On June 15, 2025, staff recorded an incident as a “disturbance” with no mention of force. Video showed officers using force on at least one detainee pulled from a housing pod and on others inside it. The inspector general found it was an unreported use of force.

In another incident, facility records listed items such as a phone, wallet, and paperwork for two detainees. Staff could not find any of it. Both detainees had been booked out for flights more than once and booked back in when flight weight limits kept them off the planes.