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Mexico prepares tents in border cities to receive Mexicans deported from US​

USA TODAY
Jeff Abbott, El Paso Times
January 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The construction of large tent shelters is underway in Juárez as part of the Mexican government's preparation for the possible influx of Mexican nationals deported under U.S. President Donald Trump's planned mass deportations.

Construction of the temporary shelters began on Tuesday, Jan. 21, with state workers laying down the scaffolding for the structures just across the Rio Grande from El Paso. By Thursday morning, the structures were taking shape.

Workers assemble structures for a temporary shelter for Mexican deportees from the U.S. at the El Punto in Juárez on Jan. 22, 2025. The preparations are part of the Mexican federal government's response to the possibility of mass deportations of Mexican undocumented Mexicans living in the U.S.

Workers assemble structures for a temporary shelter for Mexican deportees from the U.S. at the El Punto in Juárez on Jan. 22, 2025. The preparations are part of the Mexican federal government's response to the possibility of mass deportations of Mexican undocumented Mexicans living in the U.S.
Temporary structures like the one in Juárez are being prepared in nine Mexico cities along the U.S.-Mexico border.

They are part of the President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo administration's "Mexico embraces you" program, which is preparing to receive those deported by the Trump administration. The plan was announced on Jan. 20, just ahead of the presidential inauguration in the U.S.

The facilities are quickly going up in preparation of any possible mass deportation from the United States.

"There are two that will be finished tonight," Sheinbaum Pardo said Thursday as she started her morning news conference. "The others will likely be finished by Saturday."

The center is being constructed on the land known locally as El Punto, just east of the Paso del Norte border crossing. The site is known as the place Pope Francis visited during in 2016.

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The tents are being prepared to provide potable water, garbage collection, and generators, according to a government news release detailing the facilities. These shelters will provide Mexican nationals deported with temporary housing, food, medical care, telephones, and assistance with job placement.

Workers assemble structures for a temporary shelter for Mexican deportees from the U.S. at the El Punto in Juárez on Jan. 22, 2025. The preparations are part of the Mexican federal government's response to the possibility of mass deportations of undocumented Mexicans living in the U.S.

Workers assemble structures for a temporary shelter for Mexican deportees from the U.S. at the El Punto in Juárez on Jan. 22, 2025. The preparations are part of the Mexican federal government's response to the possibility of mass deportations of undocumented Mexicans living in the U.S.
The program also makes 189 buses available to assist deportees with transportation to their home towns.

The shelters will be used exclusively to receive Mexicans, Enrique Serrano, the head of the Chihuahua state agency State Population Council (COESPO) and former mayor of Juárez, said.


"Foreign nationals will be attended by the National Institute of Migration," Serrano said.

'Remain in Mexico' and humanitarian aid​

President Donald Trump Monday closed the CBP One app, which during the Biden administration permitted a daily limit of migrants to legally enter the U.S. to petition for asylum.

The following day the administration announced that it would be re-activating the Migration Protection Protocols (MPP), a policy from Trump's first administration that required non-Mexican asylum seeker to wait in Mexico as their cases advanced in the U.S.

Workers unload material to be used to assemble a temporary shelter for Mexican deportees at Punto in Juárez on Jan. 22, 2025. The preparations are part of the Mexican federal government's response to the possibility of mass deportations of Mexican undocumented Mexicans living in the U.S.

Workers unload material to be used to assemble a temporary shelter for Mexican deportees at Punto in Juárez on Jan. 22, 2025. The preparations are part of the Mexican federal government's response to the possibility of mass deportations of Mexican undocumented Mexicans living in the U.S.
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Mexico must approve the re-implementation of the policy before any migrants awaiting asylum are returned to Mexico. President Sheinbaum Pardo has signaled that she is likely to accept the policy, which is also known as "Remain in Mexico."

While the shelters in Juárez will not provide services to non-Mexican migrants, there are at least three federally run shelters in the border city that provide humanitarian services to migrants. President Sheinbaum Pardo stated Jan. 21 that Mexico would continue to provide humanitarian aid to migrants from other countries who are at the border waiting in Mexico.

"There is humanitarian aid for them if they arrive to our northern border," Sheinbaum Pardo said. "Yesterday it was -7℃ (19°F) in Chihuahua. How can any government leave someone in those temperatures?"

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Mexico also promised to help any migrants return to their home countries.

The number of migrants arriving to the border in El Paso are at historically low levels, with the El Paso Sector seeing a 63% drop in Border Patrol encounters, according to Customs and Border Protection data. This decrease is in part the result of Mexican policy that keeps migrants near the border with Guatemala from traveling north.
 
Fun fact, this one hits close to home. I partied with Ross from time to time when he was at UTD. Some of my best friends went to UTD as well as a girl I've been off and on with for years, so I actually knew the dude.



Glad he's home. Trump has won over every Anon in the world with this.

My only ask is two more, my ex coworker from Perot Systems/Dell Services Federal Government, in exile - in Russia.

And Assange did nothing wrong.



They are patriots.
 
Trump deputizes thousands of federal agents to arrest immigrants
Portrait of Lauren VillagranLauren Villagran
USA TODAY






In a move that could supercharge the government's deportation forces, the Trump administration late Thursday deputized thousands more federal law enforcement officers to arrest immigrants in the country illegally.

Two agencies typically enforce the nation's complex Title 8 immigration laws: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, in the country's interior, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the nation's borders.

On Thursday, Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Benjamine Huffman expanded the universe of federal law enforcement officers who can investigate and apprehend immigrants. It wasn't immediately clear how many officers would be reassigned to immigration enforcement.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents apprehend an undocumented migrant they were surveilling in Herndon, Va. on Jan. 15, 2025. President-elect Donald Trump has promised to target immigrants with criminal records as he launches a "mass deportation" to remove millions of people from the country. In reality, the number of immigrants here illegally who have criminal records beyond immigration violations run into the hundreds of thousands Ð not millions. They are among the toughest people for ICE to find and arrest
"Mobilizing these law enforcement officials will help fulfill President Trump’s promise to the American people to carry out mass deportations," Huffman said in a statement. "For decades, efforts to find and apprehend illegal aliens have not been given proper resources. This is a major step in fixing that problem."

Huffman authorized Department of Justice law enforcement officials, including the U.S. Marshals, Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons to do immigration enforcement.

Former Homeland Security agents said deputizing officers from other agencies could increase the ability to deport people here illegally. But they also raised concerns about inter-agency competition and the potential for widespread civil rights abuses, given the complexities of immigration law.

"They’re using it as a force multiplier," said Carlos Archuleta, who served more than three decades in ICE and retired as country attaché to Mexico for Homeland Security Investigations.

More:Trump wants to deport immigrants with criminal records. They're hard to track down.

Inter-agency competition is "definitely a concern," he said. "So is exposure to civil rights violations, if you’re not familiar with the law."

Roughly 6,000 ICE deportation agents manage a massive docket of more than 7.6 million immigrants in the country without legal status. Under the Biden administration, ICE was directed to focus on arresting those who represented public safety and national security threats.

This week, President Donald Trump and Congress – under the new Laken Riley Act – shifted the priority for immigration enforcement to more people in the country illegally, including those without serious criminal offense, mandating detention for people accused, charged with or convicted of low-level crimes.

The expanded authorities mean thousands of Justice Department officials and agents could feasibly participate in Trump's plans to deport millions of immigrants in the country illegally. The ATF had about 2,500 special agents in 2022, while DEA reported 4,600 special agents on staff in 2021. There were more than 3,600 U.S. Marshals and deputy U.S. Marshals in 2020.

It wasn't immediately clear how many DOJ law enforcement officers would be redirected to immigration enforcement.

"Those organizations don't normally fulfill that role," said Pete Hermansen, a retired Border Patrol agent and sector chief of more than two decades.

Those agencies have their own missions, including fighting drugs and weapons trafficking and protecting federal judges and judicial facilities.

Hermansen said there is clear crossover for DEA and ATF, whose investigations into drugs and weapons trafficking often lead them to criminal organizations also involved in migrant smuggling and immigration violations.

Hermansen couldn't recall a time when this sort of deputizing had occurred, outside of specific task forces.

"It's not standard operating procedure," he said.
 
I did tell her I’d cut it after the season. I also told her I couldn’t cut it before then because if I did and we lost I’d blame myself. Like any good fan would do, might I add.

Now that we have the title, I’d hate to be the reason these young men don’t repeat. That would be selfish to doom all their hard work and sacrifice. Technically I never told her which season either.


Witch won r wu?


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