Jose Luis Perez Canchola warned that the city was not prepared for President Trump’s plan for mass deportations and the cancellation of asylum appointments.

Word began to spread quickly in the Tijuana migrant shelter Monday, even as President Donald Trump continued to deliver his inauguration speech. Nidia Montenegro, an asylum seeker from Venezuela, checked her cellphone to see if the asylum screening appointment she’d waited so long to secure was still good for Wednesday morning.

People are considering whether to apply for permission to settle in Mexico, return home, or wait to see what Trump comes up with next

Nidia Montenegro fled violence and poverty at home in Venezuela, survived a kidnapping as she traveled north into Mexico, and made it to the border city of Tijuana on Sunday for a U.S. asylum appointment that would finally reunite her with her son living in New York.

The Trump administration is ending use of a border app called CBP One that has allowed nearly 1 million people to legally enter the United States with eligibility to work.

The president moved quickly to cancel the CBP One app, which allowed migrants to schedule appointments to gain entry into the United States, turning away potentially tens of thousands of migrants.

A wide-ranging series of steps Trump has promised to beef up security at the southern border is beginning to take effect.

Migrant shelters in Tijuana - located across the border from San Diego, California - are bracing for a possible surge in the influx of migrants should US President Donald Trump carry out his mass ...

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