"It's unprecedented," said Ciudad Juarez municipal official Enrique Licon as workers unloaded long metal bracings from tractor trailers parked in the large empty lot yards from the Rio Grande in order to build a tent city for deportees from the United States.

Mexico was raising sprawling tents on the U.S. border Wednesday as it braced for President Donald Trump to fulfill his pledge to reverse mass migration

Groups of migrants began to be deported to Mexico on Tuesday night as border shelters and authorities brace themselves for President Donald Trump's promised campaign of mass deportations.