EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Mexican officials began preparing for the mass deportation of migrants as soon as they learned Donald Trump would be the next president of the United States.

Candidate Trump had made closing the border to illegal immigration and sending migrants already in his country packing back home. By the time he took office, Mexican officials began erecting massive tents in Juarez, Nogales and other border cities to house 2,000 to 5,000 deportees at a time as part of the Mexico Te Abraza (Mexico Embraces You) program.

But migrant encounters plummeted, preventing the administration from immediately removing large numbers of people crossing the border illegally. Due process and swamped immigration courts also slowed the Trump deportation impetus.

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