Mexican authorities have begun constructing giant tent shelters in the city of Ciudad Juarez to prepare for a possible influx of Mexicans deported under U.S. President Donald Trump‘s promised mass deportations.
Migrants deported by the new deportation orders from Donald Trump have begun arriving in the border town of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico with an uncertain future awaiting them.
Hours after Trump’s inauguration, his administration canceled appointments allowing migrants to enter the U.S. to request asylum, leaving many of them stranded on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Several migrants said they had recently arrived in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico after weeks of travel, only to find their CBP One appointments were cancelled.
President Donald Trump's promises of mass deportations, which could bring batches of new arrivals fresh off the border bridges into Juárez, has Mexican law enforcement preparing to keep watch for potential trouble.
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The Trump administration has shut down the CBP One app for migrants. The Biden-era process allowed nearly 1 million migrants to enter the US at legal border crossings. We reported that an estimated 270,000 migrants are waiting in Mexico, hoping to use the app to enter the US. https://t.co/pIKlzjspjA pic.twitter.com/8Cpv1IcLhj
The CBP One app has been highly popular, functioning as an online lottery system that grants appointments to 1,450 people daily at eight border crossings. These individuals enter the U.S. under immigration "parole," a presidential authority that Joe Biden has exercised more frequently than any other president since its creation in 1952.
Four tents are being erected in what’s known as El Punto in Ciudad Juárez across the border from El Paso to temporarily house Mexican migrants deported from the U.S. under the Trump administration.
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican authorities have begun constructing giant tent shelters in the city of Ciudad Juarez to prepare for a possible influx of Mexicans deported under U.S. President Donald Trump's promised mass deportations.
Migrants who waited months to cross the U.S. border with Mexico learned their CBP One appointments had been canceled moments after Donald Trump was sworn in as president.