The Mexican government is building large tents in Ciudad Juárez to accommodate the expected influx of Mexicans repatriated by the President. of Donald Trump the promise of mass deportation.
The tents in Ciudad Juárez are designed to temporarily house thousands of people and will be repaired in a few days, city official Enrique Licon told Reuters.
“It's unprecedented,” Licon said Tuesday of Mexico's plan to build shelters and hospitality centers in nine cities south of the US-Mexico border.
The local authorities will reportedly provide the deported Mexicans with food, temporary housing, medical care and assistance in obtaining identification documents, Reuters reported.
A member of the Mexican Navy walks inside an industrial tent building, which will be used by Mexican authorities as a temporary shelter for migrants deported from the United States, in Mexicali, Mexico, January 22, 2025. (REUTERS/Victor Medina)
The government will also provide transportation for Citizens of Mexico to return to their villages.
Trump campaigned to begin the largest deportation of illegal immigrants in American history and launched the effort after taking office on Monday. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has made more than 460 arrests, targeting illegal immigrants with criminal records, including violent crimes.
Information obtained by Fox News Digital shows that between the middle of Jan. 21 and 9 a.m. on January 22, a period of 33 hours, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested more than 460 illegal immigrants whose criminal history includes sexual assault, theft, robbery, assault and misdemeanor, drug and weapons offenses, resisting arrest and domestic violence.
The agents arrested citizens from many countries such as Afghanistan, Angola, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Senegal and Venezuela.
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An aerial view shows workers setting up an industrial storage tent, which will be used by Mexican authorities as a temporary shelter for migrants deported from the United States, in Mexicali, Mexico, Jan. 22, 2025. (REUTERS/Victor Medina)
Actions took place across the US including Illinois, Utah, California, Minnesota, New York, Florida and Maryland.
About 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 the latest data of the US public.
President Donald Trump has begun his mass deportation plan to combat illegal immigration. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Many are from the central and southern parts of Mexico, which are plagued by violence and poverty. About 800,000 illegal Mexicans in the United States come from Michoacan, Guerrero and Chiapas, according to a COLEF study, where fierce battles between organized crime groups have forced thousands to flee in recent years, sometimes leaving entire cities abandoned.
Trump quickly launched policies aimed at stopping the flow of immigrants into the US Former President Biden it was over. On Monday, the Trump administration ended the CBP One app program, which allowed immigrants waiting in Mexico to schedule an appointment to enter the US legally. Then on Tuesday, Trump reinstated the Migrant Protection Policy (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 burden Mexico with deportations, but the government insists it is prepared.
“Mexico will do everything necessary to take care of its people, and will offer whatever is necessary to receive those returned to their country,” the Mexican Interior Minister Rosa Icela Rodriguez said on Monday at a press conference, according to Reuters.
Adam Shaw of Fox News Digital and Reuters contributed to this report.