The Mexican government is building nine shelters in border cities to receive deportees. It has said that it would also use the existing facilities in Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez and Matamoros to take in migrants whose appointments to request asylum in the US were cancelled on Trump's inauguration day.

Mexico erected sprawling tents on the US border as it braced for the effects of Donald Trump’s mass deportation drive . In an empty lot in Ciudad Juárez, which neighbours Texas, cranes lifted metal frames for tent shelters.