It’s been described as chaotic and at a breaking point: the surge in Central American families fleeing violence or poverty, seeking asylum in the United States. Now in response to the recent spikes, the government is erecting two new tent facilities to temporarily detain migrant families and unaccompanied minors. It’s the latest sign of how the Trump administration is scrambling to respond to the influx of asylum seekers at the Southwest border. One facility can be seen here, at the Donna border crossing in Texas. This is what it looks like. These makeshift detention centers aren’t a new concept. A similar facility was briefly set up at the end of the Obama administration in 2016 after an increase in migrants arriving then. The second new facility is set to go up here, at a Border Patrol station in El Paso, about 7.5 miles from the border. It comes after Border Patrol detained hundreds of migrants under a bridge in March. Then, they were moved to these small tents at a Border Patrol station parking lot. Local politicians and human rights advocates criticized both these facilities as insufficient and inhumane. “What I saw there were 4-month-old children living outside in these tents with the same clothes for days on end.” So now, they’ve built this new detention center on the same parking lot. It will be run by Border Patrol. and it’s where some migrants will be held while their cases are processed. Border Patrol is only allowed to hold them here for up to 20 days before they move to the next steps of the asylum process. The structures will be here for at least four months and possibly through the end of the year. There’s one big tent that houses up to 500 individuals, sleeping on mats and using indoor chemical toilets. A temporary processing facility is planned to be set up here. Unaccompanied minors will be separated by gender. And according to the contract, families will be held together, each in their own walled-off sections. The space is tight. C.B.P. has allocated 60 square feet per detainee. That’s about one and a half king-sized mattresses. This includes their sleeping space, which will be similar to the setup that’s seen here, in this promotional video posted by the contractor building these tents. The price tag on this? More than $37 million. Meanwhile, Border Patrol is planning to build a $192 million permanent facility that will likely go at the site of a former Hoover plant in West El Paso. While the numbers of migrants apprehended at the border are still historically low, it’s increasingly families and unaccompanied children who arrive. And these new tents, while an improvement compared to being detained under a bridge, are only the latest temporary fix by the Trump administration to catch up with these new realities.