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Mexico refuses US military flight deporting migrants, sources say (www.reuters.com)

submitted 1 week ago by HellsBelle to c/[email protected]

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Mexico has refused a request from President Donald Trump's administration to allow a U.S. military aircraft deporting migrants to land in the country, a U.S. official and a Mexican official told Reuters.

U.S. military aircraft carried out two similar flights, each with about 80 migrants, to Guatemala on Friday. The government was not able to move ahead with a plan to have a C-17 transport aircraft land in Mexico, however, after the country denied permission.

The Mexican official did not give a reason for the denial of permission to land, while the foreign ministry did not mention the incident.

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[–] [email protected] 126 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

This is exactly what I expected- countries will not take them back.

And for all the people who claim there will be no concentration camps, what do you think they will do with all of the people they are planning to deport who's countries won't take them back? The plan is to deport 20 million people. Even 1% of that number who's countries refuse to take them back would require a concentration camp. Even 0.1%. Even if the plan was to put those people in prison, we do not have enough beds in prisons.

[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Iirc the (original) Nazis didn't resort to camps first either. It's painfully obvious where this is all going

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're exactly right. It did not start with the camps.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It started with mass deportations of a villainized population.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

*attempted deportation

The countries that the Nazis shipped the Jews to refused to take them.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

Brazil took them back. I read they also got their first batch, a few hundred.

This is crazy.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

will not take them back

Because half the people in those airplanes are not even Mexican citizens, they mag be from any Latin American country. It's literally the US dumping it's problems into Mexico, of course they don't allow any of that. That is also ignoring the humanitarian disaster that the US is generating and which Mexico would like to have no part in.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

These flights cost a bundle. Maybe Elon "Sieg Heil" Musk should step in and DOGE-stop them, because clearly they're not cost-effective.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Everything they plan to do costs a bundle. Even just renaming the Gulf of Mexico will cost millions, if not billions, because of all the signs that need to be replaced, official maps redrawn, laws redrafted, etc.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And guess who will just so happen to run companies getting these contracts? It's all a way to hand tax dollars to his donors, and his oligarchs doing him favors.

[–] xzot746 9 points 1 week ago

Look at you being all sensible early on a Saturday morning. Grifters gonna grift.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

The Nazis became more "efficient" after they started with mass deportation too.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Expected, next comes the 'holding camps' while they figure out what to do next, which is slave labor camps like the US treats its prisoners.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Concentration camps

[–] HellsBelle 57 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Mexico could also have refused the transport because citizenship of the detainees could not be verified.

I mean you almost know that Trump and his syncophants don't give a fuck who they send where ... they just want them gone.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I expect some of the illegal immigrants to lie about their country of origin. If you are from Venezuela, why would you say you are from there and get sent back, when you can say you are Mexican and ICE can't say otherwise, so you get sent to Mexico where things are better than Venezuela.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because, believe it or not, we can tell each other apart and we know when someone is not Mexican….

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's some high level racism. Do they use phrenology?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

In my experience we can often tell roughly where someone is from going only by speech and use of slang. While I can only speak for a Mexican perspective, I imagine the same is true for people from most of the Latin American countries, and I imagine the same could be said for people from different states in the US of A. No idea if that's what they meant, but it's not necessarily based on racism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

They are all Mexicans.

MAGA

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

Doh, really?

Mexico isn't allowing airplanes full of random people frok various different countries to be dumped in their country? Wonder why.

But no worries, trump will threaten either with economic ruin or full oninvasion, as he has already done multiple times with both Canada and Mexico.

Both Canada and Mexico shouldn't budge, and aren't, so far, but I think everyone here should brace for some real shit...

On a side note, if the US decides to send in military to Mexico, let's just say that certain groups in Mexico have been trained and armed by the US military, and also have trained in various method of getting messages across. Expect US military to be found hanging from bridges. Talk about your strange bedfellows in times of darkness.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

Excellent. Resist.

[–] andrew_bidlaw 22 points 1 week ago

What a smol weiner move on Dump's side. He can't handle his own immigrants so he send them elsewhere. Is he weak or is he even weaker?

Let the God fucking guard those poor souls who got caught in the crossfire. They don't deserve being so dependent on who is chosen a president by a country they aren't even citizens of. Getting sent back to wherever after living, working in the US, is fucking cruel.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Here come the internment camps.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

U.S. military aircraft carried out two similar flights, each with about 80 migrants, to Guatemala on Friday

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Sure, 'about 80', those are only human lives you're talking about, what's one or two give or take? /s

Meanwhile, a defense official said there were two flights overnight. Both went to Guatemala, according to two sources, and carried 81 deportees. However, a Guatemalan official said 79 Guatemalans had been returned, 31 women and 48 men.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hundreds-illegal-immigrant-criminals-arrested-more-flown-from-us-military-white-house-says/ (archived)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

The pushed two of them out of the airplane

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

A US invasion of Mexico would be a disaster. It would be Vietnam all over again.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not that Mexico has any obligation to cooperate with Trump, but I don't like where this is going.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

It's going towards trump saying he's gonna invade Mexico..just wait

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Viva Mexico.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Won't those immigrants will just at the end decide to go back by themselves (if they are allowed to)? Because being in a prison is maybe worse than going back to their country?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

It's different, probably worse. Despite the propaganda, immigrants are usually selfless and their family rely on them. For the most part the scary bit is not prison, but knowing their family may starve or that they won't see them again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Next time they'll just give ppl parachute and say so long.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

What's next? Rename New Mexico? Oh how about the Capital District of CoLuMbiA!?!? Wait the United States is just one country among many in just one of the American continents. Why not call it the Gulf of the Americas?