Transporting deportees to another country requires cooperation with the government of that country.
Mexico has denied landing to a U.S. military plane, temporarily thwarting the Trump administration's plans to deport migrants. The incident occurred on Thursday, January 23.
NBC reported this, citing two Pentagon officials and a third person familiar with the situation.
Sources said that two C-17 military transport planes, each carrying about 80 people, took the deportees from the United States to Guatemala. The third flight, destined for Mexico, never took off.
A White House spokesperson later said in a text message that “the flight issue was an administrative issue and was quickly corrected.”
After the news broke, White House spokesperson Caroline Leavitt tweeted on Saturday, January 25, “Yesterday Mexico received a record 4 deportation flights in 1 day!”
She added that there were also unlimited deportations taking place at the land border.
However, the White House spokesperson did not specify whether the flights were military, commercial, or private flights.
The office of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said it opposes Trump's “unilateral” actions to implement restrictive immigration standards, and that transporting deportees to another country requires cooperation with the government of that country.
“Mexico has a very good relationship with the government of the United States, and we cooperate with respect for our sovereignty on a wide range of issues, including migration,” the Mexican Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The Foreign Ministry did not go into detail about why the American plane was not allowed to land in the country.
Recall that the United States has begun deporting hundreds of illegal migrants sent back to their countries of origin by military aircraft. The White House boasted of “the largest mass deportation operation in history.”
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