When Mexico is taking President Trump's campaign promises on immigration seriously, you know it's going down:
Mexico raised sprawling tents on the U.S. border Wednesday as it braced for President Donald Trump to fulfill his pledge to reverse mass migration.
In an empty lot tight against the border with El Paso, Texas, cranes lifted metal frames for tent shelters in Ciudad Juárez. Nogales, Mexico — across from Nogales, Arizona — announced that it would build shelters on soccer fields and in a gymnasium. The border cities of Matamoros and Piedras Negras have launched similar efforts.
Beyond the tents, "the Mexican government is building nine shelters in border cities to receive deportees," and is also planning to use "existing facilities in Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez and Matamoros."
Mexico building all those shelters for deportees like:
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says that Mexico "will give humanitarian aid to migrants from other countries whose asylum appointments were cancelled, as well as those sent to wait in her nation under the revived policy known as Remain in Mexico."
As for immigrants from Mexico itself, the government says it will "bus some deportees to their homes in Mexico's interior."
But concerning international immigrants sent back across the U.S./Mexico border:
Mexico wants to eventually and voluntarily return them to their nations, [Sheinbaum] has said.
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