Mexico will not allow the US to send Mexican migrants to Guantanamo and prefers to receive them directly, Mexican Foreign Minister Juan Ramon de la Fuente said yesterday, quoted by Reuters and BTA.
According to the foreign minister, this is stated in a diplomatic note sent by the Mexican government to the US embassy in Mexico.
The US sent the first military plane yesterday, carrying a small group of detained migrants, to its naval base in southeastern Cuba.
US President Donald Trump has promised to expand the migrant detention center, separate from the high-security military prison at the Guantanamo Bay base, so that it can accommodate up to 30,000 migrants.
Meanwhile, hundreds of Mexican soldiers and National Guard units were mobilized and deployed along the U.S. border yesterday as part of an agreement that temporarily postpones U.S. tariffs on imports from Mexico for a month on condition that the Latin American country takes measures to counter the illegal trafficking of fentanyl, Reuters reported, quoted by BTA.
The Mexican soldiers will be deployed in hot spots along the border with a high rate of illegal migration, drugs and weapons, including in the border Mexican states of Baja California, Sonora and Tamaulipas, military and government officials said.
The plan for the possible deployment of about 10,000 Mexican soldiers is part of a deal announced earlier this week, under which U.S. President Donald Trump temporarily postpones the imposition of a 25% tariff on Mexican imports for a month. Mexico threatened to impose retaliatory tariffs.