Immigration and Customs Enforcement made 308 arrests Tuesday, Trump’s first full day in office, Border Czar Tom Homan told Fox News, similar to figures under the Biden administration, which made 282 daily arrests on average in September, the last month for which data is available.
Here's how Mexico's politicians, lawmakers and party leaders have responded to the return of Donald Trump to the White House.
President Claudia Sheinbaum is detaining more migrants, seizing more fentanyl and positioning her country as a key ally against China. But the U.S. stance has shifted, too.
Donald Trump returned to the US presidency on January 20 with a flurry of executive orders. This included the designation of criminal gangs and drug cartels operating south of the Mexico border as “foreign terrorist organisations” – a first for a US president. The state department will now decide which groups are added to the list.
Dozens of activists beat and burned a piñata resembling Donald Trump outside the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City on Monday.
Some residents and business leaders in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez have reacted to threats by U.S. President Donald Trump of tariffs on Mexican imports.
President Donald Trump's promises of mass deportations, which could bring batches of new arrivals fresh off the border bridges into Juárez, has Mexican law enforcement preparing to keep watch for potential trouble.
Mexican soldiers rushed Thursday to set up emergency shelters near the border with the United States ahead of President Donald Trump's threatened mass deportations.
It puts in motion plans Trump laid out in executive orders signed shortly after he took office to crack down on immigration.
Mayor Webber said in President Donald Trump's first administration, ICE raids were happening throughout the city and he's prepared to fight back.