Mexico prepares to welcome back migrants from the United States after Trump's return order

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BBC correspondent in Mexico

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A member of a religious group dressed as an angel takes part in a protest against Trump's migration policies at the Ciudad Juarez international crossing between Mexico and the United States.

In the shadow of a vast crucifix, laborers and construction workers in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez are building their own small town. A tent city.

On the old fairgrounds, under an altar built for a mass by Pope Francis in 2016, the Mexican government is preparing to welcome thousands of deportees expected to arrive from the United States in the coming weeks.

Juarez is one of eight border points along the 3,000-kilometer (1,900-mile) border where Mexico is preparing for the expected influx.

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Ciudad construction workers are building the frame of the giant tent that will house some of the five million undocumented Mexicans who could leave the United States.

Men in boots and baseball caps climb to the top of a vast metal structure to drape themselves over a thick white tarp, erecting a rudimentary shelter to temporarily house men and women just like them.

Casual laborers, domestic workers, kitchen staff and farm workers will likely be among those soon sent south, once what President Donald Trump calls “the largest deportation in American history” ends. place.

In addition to being protected from the elements, the deportees will receive food, medical care and assistance in obtaining Mexican identity documents, as part of a deportee support program that the president's administration Claudia Sheinbaum calls “Mexico Kisses You.”

“Mexico will do whatever is necessary to care for its compatriots and will dedicate whatever is necessary to welcome those who are repatriated,” Mexican Interior Minister Rosa Icela Rodriguez said on Inauguration Day of Trump.

For her part, President Sheinbaum stressed that her government will first address the humanitarian needs of those who return, saying they will be eligible for her government's social programs and pensions, and will be able to work immediately.

She urged Mexicans to “stay calm and keep a cool head” when it comes to dealing with President Trump and his administration more generally, from expulsions to the threat of tariffs.

“With Mexico, I think we're doing very well,” President Trump said in a video speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos this week. The two neighbors could still find a viable solution on immigration that is acceptable to both countries. President Sheinbaum said the key is dialogue and keeping communication channels open.

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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum urged her people to “remain calm and keep a cool head” in the face of Trump’s executive orders.

But she undoubtedly recognizes the potential stress that President Trump's declaration of a U.S. border emergency could place on Mexico.

An estimated five million undocumented Mexicans currently live in the United States, and the prospect of a mass return could quickly saturate and overwhelm border cities like Juarez and Tijuana.

It's a question that worries José María García Lara, director of the Juventud 2000 migrant shelter in Tijuana. As he shows me around the facility, which is already nearing capacity, he says there are very few places he can accommodate more families.

“If necessary, we might be able to put people in the kitchen or in the library,” he says.

However, there comes a time when there is simply no more space and donations of food, medical supplies, blankets and hygiene products will be too limited.

“We are affected on two fronts. First, the arrival of Mexicans and other migrants fleeing violence,” explains Mr. Garcia.

“But we will also have mass expulsions. We don't know how many people will cross the border and need our help. Together, those two things could create a huge problem.”

In his first days in office, President Trump signed a directive ordering officials to restart efforts to build the border wall with Mexico.

Additionally, another key element of Mr. Trump's executive orders includes a policy called “Remain in Mexico” under which immigrants awaiting dates to file their asylum applications in a U.S. immigration court would have to remain in Mexico before these appointments.

When “Remain in Mexico” was in place before, during Trump’s first term and under Mexico’s Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexican border cities struggled to get by.

Human rights groups have also repeatedly denounced the risks migrants face by being forced to wait in dangerous cities where crime linked to drug cartels is rife.

This time, Sheinbaum made it clear that Mexico had not agreed to the plan and would not accept any non-Mexican asylum seekers from the United States while they await their asylum hearing. Clearly, “Remain in Mexico” only works if Mexico is willing to comply. So far he has drawn a line.

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Migrants trying to reach the United States gather at a bonfire to warm up during a night of low temperatures in Ciudad Juarez.

President Trump has deployed about 2,500 troops to the U.S. southern border, where they will be responsible for some of the logistics of his crackdown.

Meanwhile, in Tijuana, Mexican soldiers are helping to prepare for the aftermath. Authorities have prepared an event center called Flamingos, with 1,800 beds for returnees and troops bringing in supplies, setting up a kitchen and showers.

As President Trump signed executive orders Monday, a minibus rolled through the gates of the Chaparral border crossing between San Diego and Tijuana with a handful of deportees on board.

A few journalists had gathered to try to speak, ostensibly, to the first deportees of the Trump era. It was, however, just a routine expulsion, one that had likely been planned for weeks and had nothing to do with the documents Trump was signing in front of a cheering crowd in Washington DC.

Yet symbolically, as the minibus passed waiting media on its way to a government-run shelter, these were the first of many.

Mexico will have its work cut out to welcome them, house them and find them a place in a nation that some will not have seen since they left as children.

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