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