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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Mexico has refused a petition from President Donald Trump's medication to let a U.S. subject craft deporting migrants to onshore successful the country, a U.S. authoritative and a Mexican authoritative told Reuters.
U.S. subject craft carried retired 2 akin flights, each with astir 80 migrants, to Guatemala connected Friday. The authorities was not capable to determination up with a program to person a C-17 transport craft onshore successful Mexico, however, aft the state denied permission.
A U.S. authoritative and a Mexican authoritative confirmed the decision, which was archetypal reported by NBC News.
Mexico's overseas ministry, successful a connection precocious connected Friday, said the state had a "very large relationship" with the U.S. and cooperated connected issues specified arsenic immigration.
"When it comes to repatriations, we volition ever judge the accomplishment of Mexicans to our territory with unfastened arms," the ministry said.
The Mexican authoritative did not springiness a crushed for the denial of support to land, portion the overseas ministry did not notation the incident.
Trump's medication earlier this week announced it was re-launching the program known arsenic "Remain successful Mexico," which forced non-Mexican asylum seekers to hold successful Mexico until their cases successful the United States were resolved.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said connected Wednesday specified a determination would necessitate the state receiving the asylum-seekers to agree, and that Mexico had not done so.
The U.S. State Department and the Pentagon did not instantly respond to requests for comment.
U.S.-Mexico relations person travel into crisp absorption since Trump started his 2nd word connected Monday with the declaration of a nationalist exigency on the 2 nations' shared border. He has ordered 1,500 further U.S. troops determination truthful far, and officials person said thousands much could deploy soon.
The president has declared Mexican cause cartels violent organizations, renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and threatened an across-the-board 25% work connected Mexican goods opening successful February.
Sheinbaum has sought to debar escalating the concern and expressed openness toward accommodating Mexican nationals who are returned.
But the leftist person has besides said she does not hold with wide deportations and that Mexican immigrants are captious to the U.S. economy.
The usage of U.S. subject craft to transportation retired deportation flights is portion of the Pentagon's effect to Trump's nationalist exigency declaration connected Monday.
In the past, U.S. subject craft person been utilized to relocate individuals from 1 state to another, similar during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan successful 2021.
This was the archetypal clip successful caller representation that U.S. subject craft were utilized to alert migrants retired of the country, 1 U.S. authoritative said.
The Pentagon has said that the U.S. subject would supply flights to deport much than 5,000 immigrants held by U.S. authorities successful El Paso, Texas, and San Diego, California.
Guatemala besides connected Friday received a 3rd formation of astir 80 deported migrants connected a chartered commercialized aircraft, Guatemalan authorities told Reuters.
