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The Mexican government is building large camps in Ciudad Juárez to receive the expected influx of Mexicans that the president returns to their home country. donald trump He promised mass deportations.
The tented shelters in Ciudad Juárez are made to temporarily house thousands of people and will be ready in just a few days, city official Enrique Licón told Reuters.
“It’s unprecedented,” Licón said Tuesday of Mexico’s plan to build shelters and reception centers in nine cities south of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Authorities on the ground will reportedly provide the deported Mexicans with food, temporary housing, medical care and assistance in obtaining identity documents, Reuters reported.
TRUMP’S ICE ACCUMULATES HUNDREDS OF ARRESTS, INCLUDING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARRESTED FOR HORROR CRIMES
A member of the Mexican Navy walks in the middle of 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/Víctor Medina)
The government will also provide transportation for Mexican nationals to return to their places of origin.
Trump campaigned on launching the largest mass deportations of illegal immigrants in U.S. history and began that effort after taking office on Monday. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has already 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 on January 21 and 9 a.m. on January 22, a 33-hour period, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested more of 460 illegal immigrants whose criminal records include sexual assault, robbery, robbery, aggravated assault, drug and weapons offenses, resisting arrest and domestic violence.
Agents arrested citizens of several countries, including Afghanistan, Angola, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Senegal and Venezuela.
‘IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL’: TRUMP DHS EXPANDS EXPEDITED REMOVAL POWERS AS OPERATIONS INCREASE
A drone view shows workers setting up a tent at an industrial warehouse, 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/Víctor Medina)
Arrests occurred throughout the United States, including Illinois, Utah, California, Minnesota, New York, Florida and Maryland.
Nearly five million Mexicans live in the United States without authorization, 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 immigrants. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Many come from parts of central and southern Mexico plagued by violence and poverty. Some 800,000 Mexicans illegally present in the United States are from Michoacán, Guerrero and Chiapas, according to the COLEF study, where fierce battles between organized crime groups have forced thousands to flee in recent years, sometimes leaving entire towns abandoned.
Trump has quickly restarted policies aimed at stemming the flow of immigrants into the United States that former president biden it was over. On Monday, the Trump administration ended the CBP One app program, which allowed migrants waiting in Mexico to schedule an appointment to enter the United States legally. Then on Tuesday, Trump reinstated the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), a requirement that non-Mexican asylum seekers must wait in Mexico until their cases are resolved.
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Immigration activists worry that Trump’s strict immigration policies will overwhelm Mexico with deportees, but the government insists it is prepared.
“Mexico will do everything necessary to take care of its compatriots, and will allocate what is necessary to receive those who are repatriated,” Mexican Interior Minister Rosa Icela Rodríguez said at a press conference on Monday, according to Reuters.
Fox News Digital’s Adam Shaw and Reuters contributed to this report.
