The Mexican government is building large camps in Ciudad Juarez to receive the expected influx of Mexicans returned to their native country by President Donald Trump He promised mass deportation.
Enrique Lecon, a city official, told Reuters that the tents in Ciudad Juarez are designed to temporarily house thousands of people and will be set up within a few days.
“It's unprecedented,” Lacon said Tuesday of Mexico's plan to build shelter and reception centers in nine cities south of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Reuters reported that authorities at the site will provide deported Mexicans with food, temporary housing, medical care, and assistance in obtaining identity documents.
Trump raises hundreds of arrests, including illegal immigrants arrested for horrific crimes
A member of the Mexican Navy walks through the structure of an industrial warehouse tent, which Mexican authorities will use as 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 Mexican citizens To return to their hometown.
Trump's election campaign focused on launching the largest mass deportation of illegal immigrants in the history of the United States, and he began those efforts after taking office on Monday. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has already made more than 460 arrests, targeting undocumented immigrants with criminal records, including violent crimes.
Information obtained by Fox News Digital shows that between midnight on January 21 and 9 a.m. on January 22, a period of 33 hours, ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested more than 460 illegal immigrants whose criminal history included Sexual assault, theft and sexual abuse. Robbery, aggravated assault, drug and weapons offenses, resisting arrest and domestic violence.
Agents arrested citizens from a large number of countries, including Afghanistan, Angola, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Senegal and Venezuela.
A drone image shows workers preparing an industrial warehouse tent, which Mexican authorities will use as temporary shelter for migrants deported from the United States, in Mexicali, Mexico, January 22, 2025. (Reuters/Victor Medina)
The arrests occurred across the United States including Illinois, Utah, California, Minnesota, New York, Florida and Maryland.
Nearly five million Mexicans are living in the United States without authorization, according to an analysis by Mexican research center El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) based on recent U.S. Census data.
President Donald Trump began his policy of mass deportations to combat criminal illegal aliens. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Many of them come from parts of central and southern Mexico torn by violence and poverty. According to the COLEF study, about 800,000 Mexicans illegally in the United States are from Michoacan, Guerrero and Chiapas, where fierce battles between organized crime groups have forced thousands to flee in recent years, sometimes leaving entire towns abandoned.
Trump quickly resumed policies aimed at stemming the flow of migrants into the United States Former President Biden It's over. On Monday, the Trump administration ended the CBP One application program, which allowed migrants waiting in Mexico to schedule an appointment to legally enter the United States. Then on Tuesday, Trump reinstated 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 tough immigration policies will flood Mexico with deportees, but the government insists it is prepared.
Mexican Interior Minister Rosa Isela Rodriguez said in a press conference on Monday, according to Reuters, that “Mexico will do everything necessary to care for its citizens, and will allocate everything necessary to receive those returning to their homeland.”
Adam Shaw of Fox News Digital and Reuters contributed to this report.
