Mexico says it will not allow US to send Mexican migrants to Guantanamo Bay

Mexico volition not let the U.S. authorities to nonstop Mexican migrants to the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, detention camp, Mexico's overseas curate said connected Tuesday.

Foreign Minister Juan Ramon de la Fuente said Mexico would alternatively straight person the migrants.

The Mexican authorities sent a diplomatic enactment to the U.S. embassy successful Mexico to explicate its position.

This comes aft White House property caput Karoline Leavitt told reporters Tuesday that the Trump medication has begun flying detained illegal migrants from the U.S. to Guantánamo Bay, though she did not specify the nationalities of the radical connected those flights.

US BEGINS FLYING MIGRANTS TO GUANTANAMO BAY

Mexican Foreign Secretary Juan Ramon de la Fuente speaks during a property league astatine the National Palace, successful Mexico City, Mexico, January 21, 2025. (Reuters)

"I tin besides corroborate that contiguous the archetypal flights from the United States to Guantánamo Bay with amerciable migrants are underway," Leavitt said.

"And truthful President Trump, Pete Hegseth and Kristi Noem are already delivering connected this committedness to utilize that capableness astatine Gitmo for amerciable criminals who person breached our nation's migration laws and past person further committed heinous crimes against lawful American citizens present astatine home," she continued.

U.S. President Donald Trump has promised to grow the detention campy to clasp up to 30,000 "criminal amerciable aliens." The U.S. subject basal has been criticized astir the satellite for its inhumane maltreatment and torture of detainees, including successful interrogation tactics.

The Trump medication has begun flying detained amerciable migrants from the U.S. to Guantánamo Bay successful Cuba, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said connected Tuesday. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, left, DOD via AP, right.)

One formation from Fort Bliss to Guantánamo Bay has astir a twelve migrants connected board, according to the Pentagon. An further formation near the U.S. connected Monday.

The migrants volition beryllium held successful the detention campy that was acceptable up for detainees successful the aftermath of 9/11. The migrants volition beryllium separated from the 15 detainees who were already there, including planners successful the 2001 violent attack.

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A migrant prepares to committee a formation to Guantánamo Bay. (Department of Homeland Security)

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Last week, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel called Trump's effort to nonstop 30,000 migrants to Guantánamo an "act of brutality."

"In an enactment of brutality, the caller US authorities announces the imprisonment astatine the Guantánamo Naval Base, located successful illegally occupied territory [of Cuba], of thousands of migrants that it forcibly expels, and volition spot them adjacent to the well-known prisons of torture and amerciable detention," helium said successful a translated station connected X.

Reuters contributed to this report.