Mexico opposes the landing of the American plane carrying deported immigras
Informed sources confirmed that Mexico has rejected the request of the US governme to allow the landing of the US military plane that was deporting immigras from this coury.
According to Isna, NBC News reported for the first time on Friday that the Mexican governme has opposed the request of the US Preside Donald Trump’s administration to allow the landing of an American military plane carrying migras deported from the United States.
Now, an American official and a Mexican official confirmed this decision of the Mexican governme in an ierview with Reuters.
US military planes made two similar flights to Guatemala on Friday, each carrying about 80 migras, but the governme was unable to move forward with a plan to land the C-17 in Mexico after Washington rejected the request.
Mexico’s foreign ministry said in a stateme late Friday that the coury has very good relations with the United States and cooperates with it on issues such as immigration.
The ministry noted: Regarding repatriation, we always welcome the arrival of Mexicans on our soil with open arms.
The informed Mexican official did not give a reason for denying the landing permit. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico did not meion this incide.
According to Reuters, the Trump administration announced last week that it would relaunch the so-called “remain in Mexico” program, which would have forced non-Mexican asylum seekers to wait in Mexico uil their cases were resolved in the United States.
Mexican Preside Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday that such an action requires the conse of the host coury, and Mexico has not done so.
The US State Departme and the Peagon did not immediately respond to requests for comme.
U.S.-Mexico relations have been in the spotlight since Trump began his second term on Monday by declaring a national emergency along the border between the two couries. He has already deployed 1,500 additional US troops there, and officials have said thousands more could soon be deployed.
The US preside also designated Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations, renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of the Americas, and threatened to impose 25 perce tariffs on Mexican goods beginning in February.
Sheinbaum has sought to avoid escalating the situation and expressed willingness to resettle Mexican nationals who are returned, but the left-leaning politician has also said he does not agree with mass deportations and that Mexican immigras are vital to the U.S. economy.
The use of US military aircraft to carry out deportation flights is part of the Peagon’s response to Trump’s declaration of a national emergency on Monday.
In the past, US military aircraft have been used to move people from one coury to another, such as when the US withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021.
But a US official said it was the first time in rece years that US military aircraft had been used to fly migras out of the coury.
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