Sprawling tents on the US border have been raised as Mexico braced for President Donald Trump to fulfill his pledge to carry out mass deportations.

By Laura Gottesdiener and Lizbeth Diaz 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.

"It's unprecedented," said Ciudad Juarez municipal official Enrique Licon as workers unloaded long metal bracings from tractor trailers parked in the large empty lot yards from the Rio Grande in order to build a tent city for deportees from the United States.

Mexico erected sprawling tents on the United States border as it braced for the effects of Donald Trump’s mass deportation drive. In an empty lot in Ciudad Juarez, which neighbours Texas, cranes lifted metal frames for tent shelters.

President Trump took action to close the nation’s southern border and terminate a widely used app. Many migrants expressed despair, and some moved to cross the border anyway.

The US-Mexico border is effectively closed off to migrants seeking asylum in the United States within hours of President Donald Trump taking office, an extraordinary departure from previous protocols that has left many concerned migrants in limbo.

Nidia Montenegro fled violence and poverty at home in Venezuela, survived a kidnapping as she traveled north into Mexico, and made it to the border city of Tijuana on Sunday for a U.S. asylum appointment that would finally reunite her with her son living in New York.

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 is readying emergency facilities in multiple cities to house the thousands of people Donald Trump is expected to return to the country as part of his planned nationwide campaign of mass deportations.

CBP One is effectively a lottery system that give appointments to 1,450 people a day at one of eight border crossings. People enter the U.S. on immigration “parole,” a presidential authority that former President Joe Biden used more than any other president since it was introduced in 1952.

The city of Tijuana approved an emergency declaration in preparation for a possible influx of migrants after Donald Trump's inauguration.

As many as 10,000 troops could eventually be stationed at the U.S.-Mexico border as part of Donald Trump ’s sweeping campaign to carry out mass deportations and declare a national emergency at the international boundary line.