Mexican government officials refused to comment about the apparent refusal to accept a U.S. military flight carrying migrants headed for Mexico.
Officials from Mexico’s Foreign Relations Ministry (SRE) and Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INAMI) initially declined to comment on questions from Breitbart News about the apparent refusal.
UPDATE: According to Reader Comments on X, “A White House official has refuted the claim saying: ‘the flights thing was an administrative issue and was quickly rectified.’”
Late last night, Mexican SRE officials posted the following on social media:
Roughly translated, the post states:
Mexico has a very good relationship with the United States government and we cooperate with respect for our sovereignties on a wide range of issues, including migration. When it comes to repatriations, we will always accept the arrival of Mexicans to our country.
Original Story Continues:
On Friday, Mexican authorities refused to give clearance to land to a U.S. military plane that was being used to move a group of migrants into Mexico, NBC News reported. The reason for the denial of the flight remains unclear, but the plane never took off.
The nationality of the migrants on the plane remains unclear. However, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has publicly claimed she would not take in migrants from other countries and only receive Mexican nationals.
The issue with the flight comes on the same day the White House announced the start of deportation flights.
As Breitbart Texas reported, Mexico began building large migrant camps in key border cities as they prepare to receive a more significant number of migrants in the coming months.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt noted that Mexico accepted “a record four deportation flights in one day!”
On Thursday, Breitbart Texas reported that the Trump administration would deploy C-130 and C-17 aircraft to facilitate the movement of migrants out of the United States.
Acting Secretary of Defense Robert Salesses added that the DOD would “provide airlift support for flights operated by DHS to implement the deportation of more than 5,000 individuals detained by CBP at the border sectors in San Diego and El Paso, Texas.”
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
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