Mayor Cruz Perez Cuellar of Ciudad Juarez expressed readiness to handle a potential influx of migrants as U.S. policies under President Donald Trump

Mexico Embraces You” initiative will accept Mexican nationals deported from the U.S. at tent camps, while deportees from other nationalities will be transferred to the city’s largest shelter.

President Donald Trump's promises of mass deportations, which could bring batches of new arrivals fresh off the border bridges into Juárez, has Mexican law enforcement preparing to keep watch for potential trouble.

Ahead of the inauguration, migrant shelters south of the Rio Grande are far from full, a reflection of the tougher measures imposed on both sides of the border.

Data shows birthright citizenship hasn't changed much since 2000 as Trump wants to end it for children of illegal immigrants.

Migrants in Mexico who were hoping to come to the U.S. are adjusting to a new and uncertain reality after President Donald Trump began cracking down on border security.

In Tijuana, meanwhile, Mexican soldiers are helping to prepare for the consequences of it. The authorities have readied an events centre called Flamingos with 1,800 beds for the returnees, with troops bringing in supplies, setting up a kitchen and showers.

Mexico raised sprawling tents on the U.S. border Wednesday as it braced for President Donald Trump to fulfill his pledge to carry out mass deportations.

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.S. President Donald Trump's promised mass deportations.

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.

The Mexican government plans to establish nine reception areas for deportees in Mexico's six northern border states over the coming weeks.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - US law enforcement agents carried out exercises using barbed wire and concrete blocks on Jan 17 at a crossing on the border with Mexico as tensions crept up ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.