The Mexican government has revealed that Mexico accepted 39,000 deportees who had been removed from the United States during President Donald Trump’s first 100 days.
According to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, the deportees were mostly from Mexico but had been living in the U.S. illegally.
The vast majority of the deported illegals were Mexican nationals, Sheinbaum revealed.
During her regular morning press conference, Sheinbaum said on Tuesday that more than 33,000 of the deported illegals were Mexican nationals.
“Since President Trump’s administration began, 38,757 have been deported [from the U.S. to Mexico], of which 33,311 are Mexicans and 5,446 are foreigners,” Sheinbaum said.
“The majority of people who are returning to Mexico are Mexicans, because the U.S. government, through the Department of State, has agreements for them to return directly to their countries,” Sheinbaum continued.
For “humanitarian reasons,” Mexico has “decided to accept people of other nationalities, particularly those who come from the northern border” by land, the Mexican president said.
Fewer deportees of other nationalities were arriving in Mexico because the U.S. government has agreements with “practically all of those countries, and so they send the planes directly to the countries where they are citizens,” Sheinbaum said.
Sheinbaum added that most of the Mexicans were flown from the U.S.
The majority of the foreigners accepted back into Mexico have since “voluntarily” chosen to return to their home countries.
U.S.-Mexico border crossings have slowed dramatically under the Trump administration.
Illegal aliens, deterred by Trump’s promised border crackdown and mass deportation plans, have increasingly abandoned their journeys north through Mexico.
According to Reuters, illegals have instead returned home.
Anticipating a potential influx of people earlier this year, the Mexican government in January began building large encampments in Ciudad Juárez.
The camps are capable of housing thousands of people, city official Enrique Licon previously told Reuters.
“It’s unprecedented,” Licon said Tuesday.
He was commenting on Mexico’s plan to build shelter and reception centers in nine cities south of the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Mexican government also organized fleets of buses intended to transport Mexican nationals from reception centers back to their hometowns.
Sheinbaum has consistently affirmed the country’s commitment to receiving and supporting its returned nationals.
She claimed that Mexican illegal aliens “are not criminals.”
Sheinbaum’s administration has also launched the “México te abraza,” or “Mexico embraces you,” initiative.
The scheme offers deportees financial assistance, healthcare access, and transportation.
In addition, Mexico has been creating thousands of jobs aimed at reintegrating migrants into the workforce, according to local outlets.
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