Mexico will not allow the US government to send Mexican migrants In the Gnantánamo Bay, Cuba, a detention camp, said Mexico Foreign Minister on Tuesday.
Foreign Minister Juan Ramon de la Fuente said Mexico would rather receive migrants directly.
The Mexican government sent a diplomatic note to the US Embassy in Mexico to explain its position.
This comes after the print secretary of the Karolina Leavitt White House told reporters on Tuesday that Trump’s administration started flying detained illegal migrants From now on to the Guantánamo Bay, although it has not determined the nationality of people on these flights.
The US starts flying to migrants in the Guantanamo Bay
Mexican Foreign Minister Juan Ramon de la Fuente speaks during a press conference at the National Palace, at Mexico City in Mexico, January 21, 2025. (Reuters)
“I can also confirm that today the first flights from the United States are underway to the Guantánamo Bay with illegal migrants,” Leavitt said.
“And thus, President Trump, Pete Hegsetth and Kristi Noah, already make this promise that they will use this capacity in Gitm for illegal criminals who have violated the laws of our country’s immigration laws, and then further committed terrible crimes against legal American citizens here,” she continued .
US President Donald Trump He promised to expand the detention camp to hold up to 30,000 “criminal illegal foreigners”. The US military base has been criticized around the world for its inhumane abuse and torture of detainees, including testing tactics.
Trump’s administration began to fly with detained illegal migrants from the US to Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, the print secretary of the White House of Karolina Leavitt said on Tuesday. (Chip Somodeville/Getty Images, left, Dod over AP, right.)
One flight from Fort Bliss to the Guantánamo Bay has about a dozen migrants on board, Pentagon states. He left the extra flight on Monday.
Migrants will be held at a detention camp set for detainees after September 11. Migrants will be separated from 15 detainees who were already there, including planners in the 2001 terrorist attack.
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The migrant prepares for the flight boarding of the Guantánamo Bay. (Homeland Security Department)
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Last week, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel called Trump’s effort to send 30,000 migrants to Guantánamo “the act of brutality”.
“In the rank of brutality, the new US government announces the Guantánamo Maritime Base prison, which is located on an illegally occupied territory [of Cuba]Of the thousands of migrants who forcibly expel and will be placed in addition to the famous prison of torture and illegal detention, “he said in the translated post on X.
Reuters contributed to this report.
