Trump Will Deport Massive Migrants, Mexico Builds Giant Shelter Tents

JAKARTA - Mexican authorities have begun building giant shelter tents in the city of Ciudadmen to prepare for the possible entry of Mexicans deported by the United States as Donald Trump policy.

Temporary shelters in Ciudadmen will be able to accommodate thousands of people and will be completed in a few days, city official Enrique Licon said.

"This has never happened before," Licon said.

Workers lowered the long metal buffer from a tractor trailer parked on an empty lot of Rio Grande, which separates the city from El Paso, Texas.

Tenda-tenda di Ciudad Marijuana merupakan bagian dari rencana pemerintah Meksiko untuk menyiapkan tempat penungan dan pusat penerimaan orang-orang terdeportasi di sembilan kota di Meksiko utara.

Authorities at the site will provide food, temporary shelter, medical care, and assistance for obtaining identity documents for deported Mexicans, according to government documents outlining the strategy dubbed "Mexico embraces you."

The government also plans to prepare a bus fleet to transport Mexicans from the reception center back to their hometowns.

Trump vowed to make the biggest deportation attempt in US history, which would eliminate millions of immigrants. However, such a large operation is likely to take years and cost a huge amount of money.

Nearly five million Mexicans live in the United States without permission, according to analysis by Mexican think tank El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) based on recent US census data.

Most of them come from the central and southern regions of Mexico which are hit by violence and poverty.

According to COLEF research, some 800,000 Mexicans without documents in America came from Michoacan, Gu airing, and Chiapas, where fierce fighting between organized crime groups forced thousands of people to flee in recent years.