EL PASO, Texas — Reporters were blocked Thursday from viewing a newly opened temporary migrant processing facility designed to deal with the influx of migrants crossing the border illegally, despite the Department of Homeland Security inviting the press to see its facilities four days prior.

GOP lawmakers, eight members of the Republican Study Committee led by Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, visited the 90,000-square-foot facility next to the Border Patrol’s Eagle Pass South Station Thursday.