U.S. President Donald Trump declared a national emergency over the border and signed executive orders signaling a serious crackdown on immigration.
The deportation flight was blocked from leaving the US after two Air Force C-17 flights, each carrying about 80 deportees to Guatemala, successfully took off Thursday night.
Mexico reportedly denied access to land for a U.S. military plane that was slated to return deportees to the country, according to reports.
The Mexican government has criticized President Donald Trump's unilateral immigration actions, and the landing would have required Mexico's assistance.
Here's how Mexico's politicians, lawmakers and party leaders have responded to the return of Donald Trump to the White House.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said ... inauguration including declaring a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border. A senior defense official told reporters on condition of ...
The White House announced Friday that it had deployed Marines to the U.S. southern border. "The US Marine Corps Is On The Border Assisting CBP With The Mission To Secure America," the White House wrote on the social media platform, X. The post included a video of planes flying down to the U.S.-Mexico border with soldiers coming out of them.
The White House said Sunday night that Colombia has agreed to allow the United States to transport repatriated migrants back to the country after two US military planes carrying deportees were blocked by Colombia early Sunday,
The White House and the State Department are denying news reports that Mexico is refusing migrant deportation flights, saying there was a miscommunication. On Saturday night, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said via X: “Thanks to President Trump: Yesterday,
Immigration raids across the US have reached their highest point since President Trump's administration took office.
More than 400 soldiers from the force, as well as C-130s and Chinook helicopters, will deploy from bases in Fort Worth and Houston to the border where they will join "thousands" of Texas National Guard soldiers.