The Mexican military has begun construction of a large migrant detention center in the border city of Matamoros in Tamaulipas state. The project is in preparation for mass deportations expected to be announced by President Donald J. Trump's administration.
Since the beginning of the week, members of the Mexican Navy (MARINA) have cordoned off and fenced off the municipal stadium in Matamoros and have begun construction of a facility capable of holding and housing large numbers of deported migrants. The rarely used stadium is centrally located with easy access to the city's two main ports of entry, the Gateway and B&M International Bridge, which connects the two border cities of Brownsville and Matamoros.
The massive facility is still under construction, but it is already staffed by a medical team, including an ambulance from the marina, and more than 20 heavily armed Mexican naval infantrymen guard the facility.
The large-scale migrant camps are in line with a series of measures announced by Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum, who previously announced that federal and state governments are preparing for the arrival of newly deported migrants. He announced that he was making preparations.
MARINA plans to build similar camps in major cities on the Mexican border, including Reynosa, Piedras Negras, Ciudad Juárez, and Tijuana.
Mexican naval infantry guards the entrance to the Matamoros migrant camp. (Credit: Breitbart Texas/Cartel Chronicles)
The planned deportations are part of President Trump's executive order signed Monday on border security and immigration.
In Mexico, various employees of Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM) were directly involved with human smuggling rings and drug cartels that controlled all goods crossing the border, Breitbart Texas reported. . Immigrants who were unable to pay the required bribes to INM officials were sometimes turned over to criminal organizations.
Editor's Note: Breitbart Texas is recruiting citizen journalists willing to risk their lives to expose the cartels that silence their communities in Mexico City and the states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo Leon. visited the state. If pseudonyms were not used, the authors would surely face death at the hands of the various cartels operating in these regions, including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas. Breitbart Texas Cartel Chronicles Published in both English and original spanish. This article was written by “JA, Espinoza” and “JC Sanchez” from Tamaulipas.
