Mexico scrambles to build tents to handle mass deportations from US

The Mexican authorities is gathering ample encampments successful Ciudad Juárez to person an expected influx of Mexicans returned to their autochthonal state by President Donald Trump's promised wide deportations.

Tent shelters successful Ciudad Juárez are made to temporarily location thousands of radical and volition beryllium prepared successful conscionable a fewer days, metropolis authoritative Enrique Licon told Reuters.

"It's unprecedented," Licon said Tuesday of Mexico's program to physique structure and reception centers successful 9 cities southbound of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Authorities astatine the tract volition reportedly supply deported Mexicans with food, impermanent housing, aesculapian attraction and assistance successful obtaining individuality documents, Reuters reported.

TRUMP'S ICE RACKS UP HUNDREDS OF ARRESTS, INCLUDING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARRESTED FOR HORROR CRIMES

A subordinate of the Mexican Navy walks amidst the operation of an concern warehouse tent, which volition beryllium utilized by Mexican authorities arsenic a impermanent structure for migrants deported from the United States, successful Mexicali, Mexico, Jan. 22, 2025.  (REUTERS/Victor Medina)

The authorities volition besides supply proscription for Mexican nationals to instrumentality to their hometowns.

Trump campaigned connected launching the largest wide deportations of amerciable immigrants successful U.S. past and began that effort aft assuming bureau connected Monday. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has already made much than 460 arrests, targeting amerciable immigrants with transgression records, including for convulsive crimes. 

Information obtained by Fox News Digital shows that betwixt midnight Jan. 21 and 9 a.m. connected Jan, 22, a 33-hour period, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested much than 460 amerciable immigrants whose transgression histories see intersexual assault, robbery, burglary, aggravated assault, drugs and weapons offenses, resisting apprehension and home violence.

Agents arrested nationals from a slew of countries, including Afghanistan, Angola, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Senegal and Venezuela.

‘PROMPT REMOVAL’: TRUMP DHS EXPANDS EXPEDITED DEPORTATION POWERS AS OPERATIONS RAMP UP

A drone presumption shows workers mounting up an concern warehouse tent, which volition beryllium utilized by Mexican authorities arsenic a impermanent structure for migrants deported from the United States, successful Mexicali, Mexico, Jan. 22, 2025.  (REUTERS/Victor Medina)

Arrests took spot crossed the U.S. including Illinois, Utah, California, Minnesota, New York, Florida and Maryland. 

Nearly 5 cardinal Mexicans are surviving successful the United States without authorization, according to an investigation by Mexican deliberation vessel El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) based connected caller U.S. census data.

President Donald Trump has begun his argumentation of wide deportations to combat transgression amerciable aliens.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Many are from parts of cardinal and confederate Mexico wracked by unit and poverty. Some 800,000 illegally contiguous Mexicans successful the United States are from Michoacan, Guerrero and Chiapas, according to the COLEF study, wherever fierce battles betwixt organized transgression groups person forced thousands to fly successful caller years, sometimes leaving full towns abandoned.

Trump has swiftly restarted policies aimed to halt the travel of migrants into the U.S. that former President Biden had ended. On Monday, the Trump medication ended the CBP One app program, which allowed migrants waiting successful Mexico to docket an assignment to participate the U.S. legally. Then connected Tuesday, Trump reinstated Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), a request that non-Mexican asylum seekers hold successful Mexico until their cases are resolved.

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Immigration activists interest that Trump's strict migration policies volition overwhelm Mexico with deportees, but the authorities insists it is prepared.

"Mexico volition bash everything indispensable to attraction for its compatriots, and volition allocate immoderate is indispensable to person those who are repatriated," Mexico's Interior Minister Rosa Icela Rodriguez said connected Monday astatine a property conference, according to Reuters. 

Fox News Digital's Adam Shaw and Reuters contributed to this report.