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Washington (Reuters) – Mexico has denied a request from President Donald Trump’s administration to give a US military aircraft deports migrants To land in the country told an American official and a Mexican official Reuters.
US military aircraft performed two similar flightsEach with about 80 migrants, to Guatemala on Friday. The government was unable to move on with a plan to have a C-17 transport aircraft in Mexico, but after the country refused permission.
An American official and a Mexican official confirmed the decision, which was first reported by NBC News.
Mexico’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement late on Friday that the country had a “very good relationship” with the United States and cooperated on issues such as immigration.
“When it comes to return, we will always accept the Mexicans’ arrival in our territory with open arms,” the ministry said.
The Mexican official did not give a reason for refusing permission to land while the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not mention the incident.
Trump’s administration earlier this week announced that it re-launched the program known as “stay in Mexico,” which forced non-Mexican asylum seekers to wait in Mexico until their cases in the United States were resolved.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday that such a step would require the country to receive asylum seekers to agree and that Mexico had not done so.
The US Department of State and Pentagon did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The US -Mexico relationship has come into sharp focus since Trump started his second period on Monday with the declaration of a national emergency along the common border of the two nations. He has ordered 1,500 extra US troops there so far, and officials have said that thousands could more soon.
The president has declared Mexican drug cartels terrorist organizations, renamed Mexico Golfen to America Golfen and threatened an overall 25% duty of Mexican goods that began in February.
Sheinbaum has tried to avoid escalating the situation and expressed openness to accommodating Mexican citizens who are returned.
But the leftist leader has also said that she does not agree with mass portions and that Mexican immigrants are crucial to the US economy.
The use of US military aircraft to carry out deportation flights is part of Pentagon’s response to Trump’s national emergency declaration on Monday.
Previously, US military aircraft have been used to move individuals from one country to another, which under the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
This was the first time in the recent memory that US military aircraft were used to fly migrants out of the country, a US official said.
The Pentagon has said the US military would give aircraft to deport more than 5,000 immigrants, such as US authorities in El Paso, Texas and San Diego, California.
On Friday, Guatemala also received a third flight of about 80 deported migrants on a chartered commercial aircraft, Guatemalan authorities told Reuters.
