Mexico working 'seamlessly' with Trump on accepting deportation flights

Within days of taking office, President Donald Trump is already making headway as far as deportations are concerned, and flights to Mexico filled with deportees are reportedly going off without a hitch.

According to Breitbart, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said her government is working smoothly with Trump to accept the planeloads of deported migrants.

Her statement came in the wake of Colombian President Gustavo Petro initially refusing to accept the deported individuals via plane, until he quickly folded after Trump threatened tariffs.

In Trump's first week in the White House, Sheinbaum said her country had received over 4,000 deported migrants.

The staggering number combines those who were flown back to Mexico and ones who were deported through ports of entry at the U.S. southern border.

She released a statement explaining how everything is going on the deportation front.

"Since that phone call between Secretary of State Maro Rubio and our Chancellor Juan Ramon de La Fuente, we have a working group that focuses on issues like immigration, and we are hoping to expand this group to other issues that we consider important," Sheinbaum said.

The Mexican president added that during one of the meetings between top officials from each country, any issues were ironed out.

“This is not new. Mexico has a long history of repatriation with the United States,” she said.

“We got prepared with attention centers in the border areas of the state … where we receive nationals that are deported and we welcome them with the program ‘Mexico Hugs You,’” she went on.

There was a slight hiccup earlier in the week when it was reported that a flight full of migrants headed back to Mexico was not cleared to land.

The issue only took a few hours to resolve, and both countries released statements confirming that deportation flights were continuing.

Trump, on his first day back in the Oval Office, virtually erased any remnant of former President Joe Biden's immigration policies and vowed to do whatever it takes to secure the southern U.S. border.

So far, he has held more than true to that promise and continues to do so each day as deportation raids unfold across the country.