Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration “is prepared to work in coordination with federal, state, and local authorities in the face of possible mass deportations,” the Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a statement in response to questions from Bloomberg News.
According to reports, Trump’s transition team has been back-channeling with the governments of El Salvador and Mexico to discuss deportation efforts.
From Bloomberg:
Trump’s team and informal advisers have had detailed conversations with representatives of the two Latin American governments, in some cases via businesspeople, about taking back migrants, according to the people.
The incoming administration is seeking to prepare broad understandings so that detailed work on deportations can begin immediately after he takes office.
Trump will have the difficult task of getting countries with which the US doesn’t have good relations — such as Venezuela, Nicaragua or Cuba — to receive their migrants, as many of these countries don’t generally accept deportation flights.
The Bloomberg report is in line with what incoming Border Czar Tom Homan has been saying almost daily since his appointment: deportations will start on Day One of the new Trump Administration.
Homan reiterated this policy stance during a CNN appearance this week.
“Right out of the gate — the president has made it clear, and I‘ve made it clear — the priority right out of the gates, is public safety threats and national security threats. And there’s plenty of them to find,” Homan told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.
“I looked at the data under the Biden administration, the deportation of criminal aliens have decreased 74 percent,” Homan continued. “So, we have all those folks that the Biden administration failed to deport, plus you got this over ten million encounters on the southern border that came across.”
“So, the public safety threats are plenty, and it’s going to keep us busy,” Homan added.
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