Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says her country has received more than 4,000 deportees from the United States since President Trump took office last Monday.
Sheinbaum says the majority of those deportees are from Mexico.
She had said last year that she hoped to reach an agreement with then-incoming President Donald Trump to not take non-Mexican deportees, but she implied that some of the deportees that have arrived this past week are from other countries.
She said in her regular morning press conference on Monday that taking third-country deportees isn’t new for Mexico, and the country has repatriated non-Mexican deportees under Trump’s first term, as well as former President Joe Biden’s.
This past weekend, Trump threatened Colombia with tariffs after it turned away a deportation flight from the U.S. But later in the day, the White House said Colombia had agreed to their terms and would accept deportation flights.
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The ruling comes a day after news broke of the government’s plan to offer legal aid to detained immigrant children through a $150 million contract Burke Law Group — a small Texas-based firm with a co-founder who is a former Trump appointee. -
A notice posted on the Federal Register this week details a $150 million government contract with Burke Law Group to represent unaccompanied immigrant children. A multimillion-dollar contact with nonprofits across the country to do the work expired Friday. -
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is supposed to help people during disasters like floods and fires. But a new report finds the Trump administration diverted FEMA staff at key times to do something very different — help ICE in immigration enforcement. -
The DACA program turned 14 this year. The Obama-era initiative is supposed to give some undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children a work permit and temporary protection from deportation. But community members say that’s no longer the case under President Donald Trump. -
Some 20,000 children alone in the US receive legal aid through the contract — part of a federal program established by Congress almost two decades ago. The contract to do that work expires July 31.
