The Mexican government is building large camps in Ciudad Juárez to accommodate the expected influx of Mexicans sent back to their native country by the president. Donald Trump’s promised mass deportations.
Tent shelters in Ciudad Juárez have been created to temporarily house thousands of people and will be ready within a few days, city official Enrique Licon told Reuters.
“It’s unprecedented,” Licon said Tuesday of Mexico’s plan to build shelters and shelters in nine cities south of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Authorities on the ground will reportedly provide deported Mexicans with food, temporary housing, medical care and assistance in obtaining identity documents, Reuters reported.
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A member of the Mexican Navy walks amid the structure of an industrial warehouse tent, which will be used by Mexican authorities as a temporary shelter for migrants deported from the United States, in Mexicali, Mexico, on January 22, 2025. (REUTERS/Victor Medina)
The government will also provide transportation Mexican nationals to return to their hometowns.
Trump campaigned on launching the largest mass deportations of illegal immigrants in US history and began that effort after taking office on Monday. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has made more than 460 arrests targeting illegal immigrants with criminal records, including for violent crimes.
Information obtained by Fox News Digital shows that between midnight January 21 and 9 a.m. January 22, a 33-hour period, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested more than 460 illegal immigrants whose criminal histories include sexual assault , theft, burglary, serious assault, drug and weapons offences, resisting arrest and domestic violence.
Agents arrested nationals from a range of countries, including Afghanistan, Angola, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Senegal and Venezuela.
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A drone shot shows workers setting up an industrial warehouse tent, which will be used by Mexican authorities as a temporary shelter for migrants deported from the United States, in Mexicali, Mexico, on January 22, 2025. (REUTERS/Victor Medina)
Arrests were made across the United States, including Illinois, Utah, California, Minnesota, New York, Florida and Maryland.
Nearly five million Mexicans live in the United States without permission, according to an analysis by the Mexican think tank El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF), based on recent US census data.
President Donald Trump has begun his policy of mass deportations to combat criminal illegal aliens. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Many come from parts of central and southern Mexico, ravaged by violence and poverty. According to the COLEF study, some 800,000 Mexicans illegally present in the United States come from Michoacan, Guerrero and Chiapas, where intense fighting between organized crime groups in recent years has forced thousands of people to flee, sometimes leaving entire towns deserted.
Trump has quickly resumed policies aimed at halting the flow of migrants into the US former President Biden had ended. On Monday, the Trump administration ended the CBP One app program, which allowed migrants waiting in Mexico to make an appointment to legally enter the US. Then on Tuesday, Trump reintroduced the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), a requirement that non-Mexican asylum seekers wait in Mexico until their cases are resolved.
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Immigration activists worry that Trump’s strict immigration policies will flood Mexico with deportees, but the administration insists it is prepared.
“Mexico will do everything necessary to care for its countrymen, and will do everything necessary to receive those who are repatriated,” Mexican Interior Minister Rosa Icela Rodriguez said at a news conference on Monday, according to Reuters.
Fox News Digital’s Adam Shaw and Reuters contributed to this report.
