A sense of despair has engulfed the migrant camp of La Soledad, named after the colonial-era church that towers over the shantytown in downtown Mexico City. It was supposed to be a temporary stop, a place to regroup and wait for the right moment to continue on toward the United States.
The Mexican government has criticized President Donald Trump's unilateral immigration actions, and the landing would have required Mexico's assistance.
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 is constructing tents to receive Mexican nationals deported under Trump's mass deportations and provide them with services to help resettle.
Donald Trump's plan for mass deportations of migrants from the United States is encountering its first obstacles. Colombia is the latest country to announce it will not accept planes with deportees. Earlier,
Migrants in Mexico who were hoping to come to the U.S. are adjusting to a new and uncertain reality after President Donald Trump began cracking down on border security.
In Mexico City, some migrants have built tent cities and slept on the streets. In a country long sympathetic to migrants, neighbors are protesting.
President Donald Trump has vowed to target the estimated 11.7 million people in the United States without legal status.
M ore than any other country, Donald Trump went after Mexico on his first day in office. He ordered its criminal gangs to be designated as foreign terrorist organisations (FTOs),
The SS United States was poised to set sail at the end of last year on her final voyage from Philadelphia to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico to become an artificial reef. But Coast Guard concerns have complicated the trip south.
Naser Zazai, 29, had planned to reunite with his mother and brother in the United States this week after fleeing Afghanistan, where he says he was threatened and attacked because his brother had once worked for the U.