Topline
Mexico on Thursday refused to accept American deportation flight. NBC NewsThe Trump administration did so after the Trump administration launched the largest deportation operation in US history and launching a series of deportation flights.
The flight was to fly on Thursday night. (AP Photo/Julia Demari Nakinson)
Key facts
According to NBC News, an American military plane was prevented from launching its flight to Mexico on Thursday night, which cited two unidentified US defense personnel and a third person familiar with the matter.
The NBC reports that it is not immediately clear why the flight was denied, though it noted the growing tension between Mexico and the United States as President Donald Trump imposed heavy taxes on the neighboring country. Has threatened
According to the NBC report, two other aircraft traveling to Guatemala, the Air Force’s C-17s stopped the flight after about 160 deportions left the United States.
White House press secretary Caroline Levyt said that the flights of deportation have begun early Friday morning, which is the first flights of deportation via military plane after President Dutt Eisenhower. Reuters This was reported to an unidentified US official.
The Mexican embassy and the White House did not immediately respond to Forbes’ comment.
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The larger number
538. How many arrests were made by US immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday.
Key background
The Trump administration said deportation will increase this week, cities like Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Denver, Washington, DC and Miami are allegedly in its cross -hair. However, the ICE and border petrol agents have been instructed to immediately focus on people who cross the border without permission. Trump reinforced his anti -immigration operation with executive orders, which would send 1,500 troops to the border and prohibit advance appointments by immigrants, during which they were forced to wait in Mexico. Trump also signed an executive order to eliminate birthright citizenship in the United States, although the policy, which automatically gives citizenship to everyone born in the United States, is diminished when a federal judge in Washington Democratic State The Attorney General had approved the request to stop Trump’s order.
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