Mexico's northern border is preparing for a transformation with the expected arrival of thousands of migrants who will seek to settle in the area, because they cannot return to their places of origin due to violence or to stay close to their relatives whom they were trying to join in the US,

By Alek Buttermann US President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration policies have left thousands of migrants in limbo on Mexico’s southern border. With mass deportations ramping up and the controversial “Remain in Mexico” programme reinstated,