Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo said Friday that her country has received about 11,000 migrants deported from the United States since Jan. 20, when U.S. President Donald Trump took office.
That number includes about 2,500 non-Mexicans, she said.
Earlier this week, Sheinbaum reached an agreement with Trump to stop the tariffs he threatened on Mexican goods in exchange for deploying thousands of police officers to the country's northern border with the United States in an attempt to limit the flow of migrants.
Sheinbaum added in a press conference that Mexico has also returned deported migrants to Honduras on air and land flights. However, she stressed that the returns were not forced.
She told reporters, "It is voluntary... We will accompany them until they can return to their countries of origin."
Mean time, the Pentagon plans to send about 1,500 additional active-duty troops to the southern border to support President Donald Trump’s escalating crackdown on immigration, a U.S. official said Friday.
That would ultimately bring the total number of troops on the border to about 3,600.
The official said the order had been approved to send a logistics brigade from the 18th Airborne Corps to Fort Liberty, North Carolina.
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