This development comes amid the Trump administration’s revival of the “Remain in Mexico” program, which the Biden administration had rejected. It requires non-Mexican asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while awaiting U.S. immigration court decisions.
One of President Trump’s first moves was to beef up security at the border and order mass raids and deportations.
On Friday, the White House shared images on X of handcuffed migrants boarding a military plane with the caption, “Deportation flights have begun.”
President Trump described the ongoing flights as part of an “all hands-on deck” effort to remove “the most dangerous criminals” from America.
Trump, who started his second term this week, has signed a series of executive orders aimed at curbing illegal migration, including deploying military forces at the southern border and declaring a national emergency. The administration has labeled the initiative as “the largest mass deportation operation in history.”
During the Biden administration, 270,000 migrants were deported in 2023—a number not reached during Trump’s first term from 2017 to 2021.
