The rush of moves are meant to secure aid for migrants who are facing US President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to carry out “the largest deportation operation” in the nation’s history. The Mexican president’s efforts have taken off in the days and weeks since Trump threatened to impose economically debilitating tariffs on his southern neighbor — the flow of migrants being a bargaining chip,

All along the 2,000-mile border, business leaders, border agents, migrants and their advocates are bracing for change in U.S. policies on trade and immigration.

Mexico is racing to provide extra shelter capacity for tens of thousands of people in cities along the US border, one of which declared a state of emergency ahead of Donald Trump’s plan to remove record numbers of migrants.