Mexico Correspondent
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Officials in Mexico are scrambling to set up shelters and support systems for the 4,000 deportees returning from the US. President Claudia Scheinbaum is pledging financial aid to help them return home. At the same time, Mexico is hosting hundreds of thousands of non-Mexican migrants who are seeking asylum in the U.S.
after the Trump administration ended the CBP One app, which was used to schedule asylum appointments. Now those migrants are no longer allowed to enter the U.S. before their asylum case is heard. Mexican officials say they plan to send non-Mexican nationals back to their home countries. Illegal border crossings into the U.S. have dropped sharply since Trump took office.