White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said early Friday morning deportation flights had begun, marking the first deportation flights using military aircraft since President Dwight Eisenhower was in office, Reuters reported, citing an unnamed U.S. official.
A suspect involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash in Urbana has been arrested in Texas after fleeing the scene and using a false identity, authorities said.
WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY – Mexico has refused a request from President Donald Trump’s administration to allow a US military aircraft deporting migrants to land in the country, a US official and a Mexican official told Reuters. The US military carried out two similar flights, each with about 80 migrants, to Guatemala o n Jan 24.
US military planes carrying dozens of expelled migrants arrived in Guatemala, authorities said Friday, as President Donald Trump moved to crack down on illegal immigration.
According to the NBC News report, two U.S. Air Force C-17s bound for Guatemala, each carrying around 80 people, flew deportees out of the U.S. on Thursday. However, a third flight, which was scheduled to land in Mexico, did not depart after it was not granted permission to land.
An official said it was the first time in recent memory that American military aircraft were being used to fly migrants out of the US.
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Mexico blocked a US deportation flight, citing administrative issues, amid heightened border tensions and intensified immigration enforcement by President Trump.
The state department is offering new details on ICE deportation flights to Mexico and Guatemala amid reports that Mexico refused a flight from the U.S.
WASHINGTON: Mexico has refused a request from President Donald Trump’s administration to allow a US military aircraft deporting migrants to land in the country, a US official and a Mexican official said.
Over a dozen undocumented immigrants are found living in an alleged stash house in Laredo. On Wednesday, Jan 22 at around 5 p.m., Laredo Sector Borer Patrol agents, DPS Troopers and other law enforcement officers received a tip that a house was allegedly being used to house undocumented immigrants.