Mexico is planning to open 25 shelters for deported migrants, according to Border Report. The shelters will have more than 12,000 beds.
Baja California Gov. Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda said the beds will open on January 20 following President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.
“This is a strategic plan to accommodate exclusively people who get deported after January 20,” Olmeda said.
“What we do know, throughout his campaign, he threatened to do this, and since he was already president of the United States, we believe this time he will be stricter and tougher when it comes to deportations,” she said. “We are working to get ready and receive our migrants.”
“These shelters that are being planned are for those being repatriated who are coming from north to south, but no foreigners, only Mexicans, this must be made clear — Mexicans will be welcomed back to their country and their human rights will be respected,” Olmeda explained.
Some shelters will board single men while others will board women, unaccompanied minors, and family units. Deported migrants may access the shelters for a few days until they are sent to the interior of Mexico, the report said.
Last month, Trump said that he had a “wonderful conversation” with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo. She “agreed to stop Migration through Mexico, and into the United States, effectively closing our Southern Border,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“We also talked about what can be done to stop the massive drug inflow into the United States, and also, U.S. consumption of these drugs. It was a very productive conversation!”
Pardo said “Mexico’s position is not to close borders but to build bridges between governments and between peoples.”
