MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico is looking to reach an agreement with the administration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump so that Mexico does not have to accept deportees from third countries in case of large-scale deportations, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Thursday.
Trump has promised a vast crackdown on migrants living illegally in the United States, and his running mate JD Vance has pledged the deportation of 1 million people a year.
Mexico, meanwhile, has played a key piece in U.S. immigration policy in recent years, accepting migrants from countries such as Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela deported from the U.S.
The complicated diplomatic relations that U.S. has with some of those countries had made it difficult to directly deport migrants of those nationalities.
“We hope to reach an agreement with the Trump administration so that, in case these (massive) deportations happen, they send people from other countries directly to their countries of origin,” Sheinbaum said in a press conference.
The president said Mexico was “in solidarity with everyone, but our main purpose is to receive Mexicans.”
(Reporting by Kylie Madry; Editing by Aida Pelaez-Fernandez)
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