New pictures show massive shelter being built in Mexico to cope with possible Trump deportations
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Multiple Mexican cities preparing for influx as Tijuana declares state of emergency. “It’s unprecedented,” Enrique Licon, a municipal official in Juárez, told the outlet. In Tijuana, meanwhile, state officials declared a state of emergency last week ahead of Trump’s deportation plans and have readied their own facilities in preparation for a surge.
![[Local leaders say leaving thousands of asylum seekers on Mexico side of border will expose them to threats]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/22/21/SEI236961493.jpg)
Leaders in the busy border crossing point of Matamoros, just across the border from Brownsville, Texas, are worried the raft of planned Trump immigration changes will leave vulnerable people stranded in Mexico. The administration has shut down the Border Patrol CBP One app, which let 1,450 asylum seekers a day make an appointment and legally enter the U.S. at set points of entry while they wait for their asylum cases to resolve.
Before the shutdown, an estimated 270,000 migrants were waiting in Mexico for an appointment and are now in limbo. Trump also reinstated his first-term “Remain in Mexico” directive, forcing non-Mexican asylum seekers to wait in the country before attempting to enter the U.S.
