The Mexican government is building a large encampment in Ciudad Juárez to accommodate the influx of Mexicans expected to be returned to their home country in a mass deportation promised by President Donald Trump.
Tent shelters in Ciudad Juárez are being built to temporarily house thousands of people and will be ready in just a few days, city official Enrique Ricon told Reuters.
“This is unprecedented,” Licon said Tuesday of Mexico's plan to build shelters and reception centers in nine cities south of the U.S.-Mexico border.
According to Reuters, local authorities will provide the expelled Mexicans with food, temporary housing, medical care and assistance with obtaining identification documents.
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Members of the Mexican Navy walk inside an industrial warehouse tent structure used by Mexican authorities as a temporary shelter for migrants expelled from the United States, January 22, 2025, in Mexicali, Mexico. (Reuters/Victor Medina)
The government will also provide transportation for Mexican nationals to return to their home countries.
Mr. Trump campaigned on the promise of the largest mass deportation of illegal immigrants in U.S. history, and began the effort after taking office on Monday. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has already arrested more than 460 undocumented immigrants with criminal records, including violent crimes.
According to information obtained by Fox News Digital, during a 33-hour period from midnight on January 21 to 9 a.m. on January 22, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) conducted a number of incidents including sexual assault, robbery, robbery, etc. More than 460 illegal immigrants with criminal records were arrested. Robbery, aggravated assault, drug/weapons offenses, resisting arrest or domestic violence.
Investigators arrested nationals of numerous countries, including Afghanistan, Angola, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Senegal, and Venezuela.
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Drone footage of workers setting up tents in an industrial warehouse that Mexican authorities are using as a temporary shelter for migrants expelled from the United States, in Mexicali, Mexico, on January 22, 2025. (Reuters/Victor Medina)
Arrests were made across the United States, including in Illinois, Utah, California, Minnesota, New York, Florida, and Maryland.
Nearly 5 million Mexicans reside in the United States without authorization, according to an analysis by Mexican think tank El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) based on recent U.S. census data.
President Donald Trump has launched a mass deportation policy to combat criminal illegal aliens. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Many come from areas in south-central Mexico that are plagued by violence and poverty. According to a COLEF study, the approximately 800,000 Mexicans living in the United States illegally are from the states of Michoacán, Guerrero, and Chiapas, and thousands have been forced to flee in recent years due to intense fighting between organized crime groups. , sometimes entire towns are abandoned.
President Trump quickly reinstated policies aimed at stemming the flow of immigrants into the United States that his predecessor, Biden, had halted. The Trump administration on Monday ended the CBP One app program, which allows migrants waiting in Mexico to schedule appointments to legally enter the United States. And on Tuesday, President Trump reinstated the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), which requires non-Mexican asylum seekers to wait in Mexico until their cases are resolved.
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Immigration activists fear President Trump's tough immigration policies will lead to a flood of deportees to Mexico, but the government insists it is ready.
“Mexico will do whatever is necessary to take care of our compatriots and will allocate whatever is necessary to accommodate those who will be repatriated,” Mexico's Interior Minister Rosa Ysela Rodríguez said at a press conference on Monday, according to Reuters. said.
Fox News Digital's Adam Shaw and Reuters contributed to this report.
