Mexican Foreign Minister Juan Ramon de la Fuente stated that Mexico would not permit the United States to detain Mexican migrants at the Guantanamo base and would prefer to take them indirectly. - Mexico prefers to receive the migrants directly instead,

Mexico will not allow the US to send Mexican migrants to Guantanamo and prefers to receive them directly, announced Mexico's Foreign Minister Juan Ramon de la Fuente. - Mexico prefers to receive the migrants directly instead,

This was the first time in recent memory that military aircraft were used to fly migrants out of the country, one U.S. official said.

Mexico told the the U.S. government it will not allow Mexican migrants to be sent to the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, detention camp, the country's foreign minister said.

The move was condemned by the Mexican foreign minister who said that migrants should only be deported to their homeland.