Miscommunication and confusion a few Protection Division manifest resulted in Mexico rejecting a U.S. deportation flight transporting unlawful immigrants to that nation this week.
Mexico was prepared to just accept the deportees and would have if not for the paperwork, a senior State Division official instructed Fox Information.
Citing two U.S. protection officers and a 3rd particular person acquainted with the scenario, NBC Information reported that two Air Pressure C-17s sure for Guatemala carrying about 80 individuals every flew deportees Thursday night time out of the U.S.
A 3rd flight sure for Mexico by no means took off after Mexico declined to consent to the touchdown, the report stated. Fox Information Digital has reached out to the White Home and the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C.
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Folks board a U.S. army plane. The White Home introduced Friday that “deportation flights have begun” within the U.S. (White Home)
Flying deportees right into a international nation requires the cooperation of that nation’s authorities. Cooperation was not a difficulty, Fox Information was instructed.
Round 2,000 unlawful immigrants have been deported to Mexico on Thursday, each on the bottom and within the air. As well as Mexico detained roughly 5,000 migrants inside its borders.
The incident occurred as tensions over the Trump administration’s robust unlawful immigration insurance policies have strained relations between the nations.
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President Claudia Sheinbaum and President Donald Trump (Getty Pictures)
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has stated she opposes Trump’s govt orders to fight unlawful immigration, together with reinstating the “Stay in Mexico” coverage, which requires migrants to attend in Mexico whereas their asylum claims play out within the U.S.
Earlier than taking workplace this week, Trump promised mass deportations, initially concentrating on prison unlawful immigrants and more durable immigration requirements and vetting procedures.
The State Division official instructed Fox Information that Mexican cooperation has been profitable all week, and that Mexico has agreed to re-implement the “Stay in Mexico” coverage.
Trump additionally ordered 1,500 energetic responsibility troops to the southern border to spice up the army presence there.
Migrants deported from the U.S. to Mexico wave as they’re transported to a shelter and cross El Chaparral pedestrian border bridge in Tijuana, Mexico, Jan. 21, 2025. (Felix Marquez/AP)
In latest days, federal immigration authorities have made lots of of arrests, together with gang members and others with prison histories, as a part of Trump’s mass deportation efforts.
