Mexico's northern border is preparing for a transformation with the expected arrival of thousands of migrants who will seek to settle in the area, because they cannot return to their places of origin due to violence or to stay close to their relatives whom they were trying to join in the US,

Mexico’s government has been creating shelters fit for 2,500 people each to take back deportees from the US. Several organisations said the system was unusually efficient so far, but that there was no clear additional plan for the estimated 380,000 Mexicans displaced internally by violence or the hundreds of thousands of foreigners now stuck.

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

A secret tunnel discovered last week on the U.S.-Mexico border will be sealed by Mexican authorities, an army official in Ciudad Juarez said Saturday.

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.

The temporary shelters in Ciudad Juarez will have the capacity to house thousands of people and should be ready in a matter of days, said municipal

It may have been embraced by the Academy, but just a day after its debut in Mexico, the acclaimed “narco-musical” Emilia Pérez was already drawing sharp rebukes for superficial portrayals of sensitive subjects.

General Jose Lemus, commander of Ciudad Juarez's military garrison, said the tunnel "must have taken a long time" to build, suggesting "it could have been one or two years".

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.

Mexican authorities are building temporary shelters in Ciudad Juarez and other cities to prepare to receive nationals deported from the U.S. by President Donald Trump.

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

Sheinbaum also said that Mexico has received non-Mexican deportees from the United States in the past week, though the majority are Mexican.