Washington/Mexico City. Mexico has already received Cuban and Nicaraguan migrants expelled by the United States under the Title 42 public health order.
Authorities from Mexico and the United States reached an agreement in April, it was not the product of the last telephone call between the presidents of the two nations, the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs said when consulted by this newspaper.
Without detailing figures, he specified that the expulsions will be made in very limited numbers and that the agreement arose given the exponential increase in arrivals from both countries to Mexico and the United States.
“Both countries are trying to keep the flow going in the most orderly way possible,” the foreign ministry said.
The newspaper The Washington Post and the AP agency reported the existence of the agreement, which until now had not been made public, one day after the working visit to Washington by the Secretary of Foreign Relations, Marcelo Ebrard. The media reported that the agreement allows Washington to expel 100 Cubans and 20 Nicaraguans a day until May 22, before the possible end of Title 42, from three border points: San Diego; El Paso, Texas; and the Rio Grande Valley, Texas.
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The agreement is potentially significant because the Mexican government has more freedom to carry out deportation flights to Cuba and Nicaragua, nations whose frosty relations with Washington severely limit the United States’ ability to return its citizens.
Secretary Ebrard did not mention any agreement during his participation in a press conference following talks with officials in Washington last Tuesday, but told the media that Mexico “would not be a free passage” for anyone heading to the border. with the United States.