A member of the Mexican Navy walks amidst the structure of an industrial warehouse tent, which will be used by Mexican authorities as a temporary shelter for migrants deported from the United States, in Mexicali, Mexico, Jan. 22, 2025. (REUTERS/Victor Medina)
The government will also provide transportation for Mexican nationals to return to their hometowns.
Trump campaigned on launching the largest mass deportations of illegal immigrants in U.S. history and began that effort after assuming office on Monday. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has already made more than 460 arrests, targeting illegal immigrants with criminal records, including for violent crimes.
Information obtained by Fox News Digital shows that between midnight Jan. 21 and 9 a.m. on Jan, 22, a 33-hour period, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested more than 460 illegal immigrants whose criminal histories include sexual assault, robbery, burglary, aggravated assault, drugs and weapons offenses, resisting arrest and domestic violence.
Agents arrested nationals from a slew of countries, including Afghanistan, Angola, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Senegal and Venezuela.
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President Donald Trump has begun his policy of mass deportations to combat criminal illegal aliens. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Many are from parts of central and southern Mexico wracked by violence and poverty. Some 800,000 illegally present Mexicans in the United States are from Michoacan, Guerrero and Chiapas, according to the COLEF study, where fierce battles between organized crime groups have forced thousands to flee in recent years, sometimes leaving whole towns abandoned.
Trump has swiftly restarted policies aimed to halt the flow of migrants into the U.S. that former President Biden had ended. On Monday, the Trump administration ended the CBP One app program, which allowed migrants waiting in Mexico to schedule an appointment to enter the U.S. legally. Then on Tuesday, Trump reinstated Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), a requirement that non-Mexican asylum seekers wait in Mexico until their cases are resolved.
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Immigration activists worry that Trump's strict immigration policies will overwhelm Mexico with deportees, but the government insists it is prepared.
"Mexico will do everything necessary to care for its compatriots, and will allocate whatever is necessary to receive those who are repatriated," Mexico's Interior Minister Rosa Icela Rodriguez said on Monday at a press conference, according to Reuters.
Fox News Digital's Adam Shaw and Reuters contributed to this report.
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