BBC Mexico correspondent
In the shadow of a huge crucifixion, workers and construction workers in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez build their small town. The city of the tent.
At the old fairs, under the altar that built Pope Francis Mass in 2016, the Mexican government prepares for thousands of deported for which they expect to arrive from the United States in the coming weeks.
Juarez is one of eight border locations along the border with 3000 kilometers (1,900 miles) where Mexico is saved for the predicted appendix.
Men in boots and baseball hats climb a huge metal structure at the top to cross thick white tarpaulins, lifting a rudimentary shelter to temporarily place men and women exactly like themselves.
Occasional workers, local workers, kitchen staff and hands of farms are likely to be among those who are soon sent to the south, and one thing President Donald Trump calls “the greatest deportation in American history.”
In addition to the protection from the elements, the deports will receive food, medical care and help in obtaining Mexican identity documents, within the framework of the deportation programs, which is the administration of President Claudia Sheinbaum called “Mexico accepts you”.
“Mexico will do whatever it takes to take care of their compatriots and will highlight everything that is needed to receive those who have been returned,” said the Mexican Minister of the Interior, Rosa Icela Rodriguez, on the day of Trump’s inauguration.
For his part, President Sheinbaum emphasized that her government will first attend the humanitarian needs of those who return, saying that she will qualify for the social programs and pensions of her government and will immediately have the right to work.
She urged Mexicans to “stay calm and hold a cold head” about relationships with President Trump and his administration wider – from deportations to threats of tariffs.
“With Mexico, I think we’re going very well,” President Trump said in a video address to the World Economic Forum in Davos this week. Two neighbors can still find a feasible solution on immigration that is acceptable to both of them – President Sheinbaum said the key to the dialogue and maintenance of open channels of communication.
Undoubtedly, however, she recognized the potential statement of President Trump Trump about emergency at the US border that could be placed in Mexico.
It is estimated that 5 million unfathomable Mexicans currently live in the United States, and the prospect of a mass return could quickly satiate and overcome border cities like Juarez and Tijuana.
This is a question that cares Jose Maria Garcia Lara, director of the Juventud 2000 Migrant shelter in Tijuana. As he shows me around the object, which is already approaching with his capacities, he says that there is very little place where more families can fit.
“If we have to, maybe we can put some people in the kitchen or library,” he says.
However, where there is simply no space – and donations of food, medical supplies, blankets and hygiene products will be stretched too thin.
“Let’s hit two fronts. First, the arrival of Mexicans and other migrants who flee violence,” says Mr. Garcia.
“But we will also have mass deportations. We do not know how many people will come across the border that needs our help. Together, these two things could create a huge problem.”
Furthermore, another key part of the executive commands of Mr Trump includes a policy called “stay in Mexico” under which immigrants waiting for dates to make their asylum cases at the US immigration court, they would have to stay in Mexico before that appointment.
When “staying in Mexico” earlier, during Trump’s first term, and under the Presidency of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico, Mexican border cities that fought to wear.
Human rights groups have also repeatedly denied risks that migrants were exposed to forced to wait in dangerous cities where the crime is associated with drugs cartel.
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 waiting for asylum hearing. It is clear that “stay in Mexico” only works if Mexico is ready to respect. He has drawn the line so far.
President Trump deployed about 2,500 soldiers to the US southern border where they would be tasked with part of the logistics of his action.
In the meantime, Mexican soldiers in Tijuana help prepare for the result. Authorities have prepared a center for events called Flamingos with 1,800 beds for returnees and troops that bring in stock, set up kitchens and showers.
While President Trump signed executive commands on Monday, the minibus passed through the door at the border of Chaparral between San Diego and Tijuana, wearing a handful of deported.
Several journalists gathered to try to talk, allegedly, the first deported Trump era. It was just a routine deportation, however, the one that was probably ongoing for weeks and had nothing to do with the documents that Trump signed in front of the Washington fan.
Still, symbolically, as the minibus passed by the media waiting for the Government shelter, these were the first of many.
Mexico will cut their jobs to receive them, place them and find a place in a nation that some will not see because they left as children.
