Tijuana Faces Rising Deportations As About 3,500 Migrants Returned Monthly Since June

About 200 people have been deported daily from San Diego to Tijuana since June, averaging around 3,500 deportations per month.

José Luis Pérez Canchola, who heads the Migrant Affairs office in Tijuana, told the Border Report, "I spoke with the United States Consul General, who said that, on average, from Monday through Friday, 125 to 200 men, women, and children are being sent back through Tijuana."

"More than half will illegally cross the border again and make it north, but some will die by falling off the walls, drown in the ocean or suffer some sort of tragedy along the way."

Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo was reportedly considering a proposal to increase funding for services that assist deported migrants, with a focus on helping unaccompanied minors.

Canchola supported this idea, emphasizing the need for resources along the border to fund shelters, migrant services, and transportation for migrants returning to their hometowns. He predicted that deportation numbers will increase after President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

The Migrant Affairs office head also highlighted the growing number of unaccompanied children being deported, a situation he described as unprecedented. Canchola warned that the situation will likely get worse, before urging the federal government to take action.

Last month, U.S. Border Patrol agents found 22 migrants living in a house in El Paso, Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens said.

The police often learn about these stash houses through 911 calls from neighbors, who hear screams or see crowds of people through windows. The authorities also work on tips received by U.S. officials from the victims' families or find groups of migrants showing signs of violence wandering around.

In August, the police in Mexico's Chihuahua City said they had rescued 1,245 migrants from criminal gangs over the past seven months.

Felicia Rangel-Samponaro, co-director of the Sidewalk School for Children Asylum Seekers, a nonprofit that operates schools for young asylum-seekers south of the border, shared an incident about a migrant family she saw wandering with their luggage in Matamoros, searching for a migrant camp that Mexican authorities had dismantled.

Meanwhile, Trump has promised to close the Southwest border to asylum seekers trying to enter the United States, which has added to the uncertainty and concerns of those seeking help.