"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.
The fear of the Mexican ruling class is that Trump’s fascist policies and their own complicity will provoke a mass radicalization among workers and youth.
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.
Herman Chacón thought he was following all the rules when he waited seven months to secure a CBP One appointment to enter the United States
It has said that it would also use existing facilities in Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez and Matamoros, to take in migrants whose appointments to request asylum in the US were cancelled on inauguration day.
Government officials, including the Mexican navy, have begun erecting the facilities in the cities of Matamoros and Ciudad Juárez, Reuters reports. “It’s unprecedented,” Enrique Licon ...