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The United States is deporting fewer people back to Mexico than at the same time in 2024, it was reported Thursday. The director of Baja California's Migrant Affairs Office in Mexico said that 32,537 Mexican nationals were returned during the first three months of the year, compared to 47,659 during the same time last year, per Border Report. "The numbers predicted by President Donald Trump are well below what we are seeing in terms of deportations," Adriana Minerva Espinoza Nolazco told reporters this week. President Donald Trump promised mass deportations of illegal immigrants as part of his 2024 campaign, but the program has faced logistical and legal challenges. Reports have indicated a slight rise in deportations overall, but not a rapidly rising number.
Migration Policy Institute, in a brief on the U.S.-Mexico relationship this month: "No country is more critical for U.S. migration management than Mexico. The former administrations of U.S. President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador worked together toward a system in which migrants who reach their countries' shared border would do so through lawful means. "Their efforts led to dramatic and sustained downturns in unauthorized crossings of the U.S.-Mexico border in 2024. The future of U.S.-Mexico migration cooperation, and to some extent broader regional efforts, now rests on negotiations between the Trump administration and the administration of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum."
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