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Tijuana Not Prepared For Trump's Proposed Immigration Policies

Keith Mizuguchi
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Migrants line up at the Chaparral checkpoint in Tijuana, Mexico, Jan. 20, 2025. Minutes after President Donald Trump took office on Monday, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection CBP announced it has canceled all scheduled appointments for immigration and border processing. The CBP announced on social media that it would shut down the CBP One mobile app that allowed migrants to submit information and book appointments at eight U.S.-Mexico border ports after 11:00 p.m. Central Standard Time.  (Photo by Joebeth Terriquez/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Here are the morning’s top stories on Tuesday, January 21, 2025…

  • California immigrant advocates are condemning President Donald Trump’s plans to call out the military for immigration enforcement and challenge the Constitutional right to citizenship for everyone born in the U.S.
  • Immediately after his inauguration on Monday, Donald Trump’s promise to crack down on immigration started to take shape. The new administration abruptly shut down the CBP One app. The government app allowed migrants to schedule appointments in their quest to gain asylum in the United States at legal ports of entry. Looking ahead to the possibility of mass deportations of people already in the U.S., those who run migrant shelters in the border city of Tijuana say they’re not prepared to receive a wave of people.

Trump Outlines Immigration Plans On First Day In Office

President Donald Trump rolled out a blueprint to beef up security at the southern border in a series of executive orders that began taking effect soon after his inauguration Monday, making good on his defining political promise to crack down on immigration and marking another wild swing in White House policy on the divisive issue.

Some of the orders revive priorities from his first administration that his predecessor had rolled back, including forcing asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico and finishing the border wall. Others launched sweeping new strategies, like an effort to end automatic citizenship for anyone born in America and ending use of a Biden-era app used by nearly a million migrants to enter America.

Migrants who had appointments to enter the U.S. using the CBP One app saw them canceled minutes after Trump was sworn in, and Mexico agreed to allow people seeking U.S. asylum to remain south of the American border while awaiting their court cases.

“I will declare a national emergency at our southern border. All illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places in which they came,” Trump said in his inauguration speech to thunderous applause.

Tijuana Not Prepared For Mass Deportations As Trump Takes Office

As President Donald Trump takes office for a second time, it remains to be seen whether he’ll be able to back up his campaign rhetoric regarding mass deportations.

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But if Trump does succeed in sending thousands of Mexican nationals to Tijuana in the near future, the city won’t be ready for it. That’s the view of Father Pat Murphy, a Catholic missionary who since 2013 has run the Casa Del Migrante shelter in Tijuana’s Buena Vista neighborhood.

Part of the problem is lack of coordination between government officials and dozens of migrant shelters run by advocates throughout the city, Murphy said “The government has not met with the shelters,” he said. “I expect that, if they don’t help us, it’s going to be people in the streets.”.

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