Nearly 11,000 migrants deported from US to Mexico since Trump took office
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A makeshift rope ladder used by human traffickers to cross migrants into the United States from Mexico hangs from the wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, in Mexicali, Mexico January 14, 2025. REUTERS/Victor Medina/File Photo
Mexico has received
nearly 11,000 deported migrants from the United States since January 20 when
U.S. President Donald Trump took office, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum
said on Friday.
She said the figure
included about 2,500 non-Mexicans.
Earlier this week,
Sheinbaum reached a deal with Trump to pause threatened tariffs on Mexican
goods in exchange for deploying thousands of National Guard police to the
country's northern border with the United States in a bid to further reduce the
flow of U.S.-bound migrants.
Speaking at her
regular morning press conference, Sheinbaum added that Mexico has also
repatriated deported migrants to Honduras via flights as well as ground
transportation.
But she stressed that
the repatriations were not forced.
"It's voluntary,"
she told reporters. "We will accompany them so they can go to their home
countries."
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