Nearly a dozen shelters are being built in northern Mexico on the border with the United States in anticipation of the deportation of Mexicans announced by new US President Donald Trump.

So far, there have been no reports of Trump’s promised deportations on the 3,100-kilometre border between Mexico and the United States, and only foreigners arrested before the US president’s inauguration last Monday have been deported.

We expect to receive between 200 and 250 people a day,’ said the mayor of Matamoros, Alberto Granados, noting that ‘the facilities can accommodate between 2,500 and 3,000 people’.

A centre is being built in Matamoros (northeast), on the border with Texas, where tents have also been erected to house military personnel,’ he said.