Mexico wants a deal with Trump to avoid receiving non-Mexican deportees

Mexico hopes to strike a deal with President-elect Donald Trump to limit the number of third-country deportees it could receive from the US, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Thursday.

Mexico hopes to strike a deal with President-elect Donald Trump to limit the number of third-country deportees it could receive from the US, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Thursday. A similar deal to send deportees directly to their country of origin is already in place with the current Biden administration. “We hope to have an agreement with the Trump administration,” Sheinbaum said Thursday during her daily press conference adding that Mexico is “in solidarity with everyone, but [Mexico’s] main function is to receive Mexicans.” Faced with the prospect of mass deportations across the US-Mexico border, Sheinbaum said her administration is setting up meetings with Mexican border states governors — Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas — so “we can agree on how to receive our compatriots.” “We hope [mass deportations] don’t happen, but if they do, we will be ready to receive them,” she said. In a statement sent to CNN, Karoline Leavitt, spokeswoman to Trump transition team, said Trump “was given a mandate by the American people to stop the invasion of illegal immigrants, secure the border, and deport dangerous criminals and terrorists that make our communities less safe. He will deliver.”