The first deportees in Tijuana are not from Donald Trump’s raids, but from Joe Biden

After Donald Trump became president of USA In his second term, last Monday, dozens of migrants have been deported through the border port of El Chaparral, in the Mexican city of Tijuana, border with California (USA), however, they are people who already remained in centers of detention since the administration of now former President Joe Biden (2021-2025).

This was confirmed this Wednesday by the migrants themselves who shared information with the media and Mexican authorities in the state of Baja California, who assured that under Trump’s strict protocols no deportees have yet presented themselves.

On Tuesday afternoon, the deportation of a hundred Mexican people was documented who told the media that they had been detained in cities such as Denver, Colorado, and Las Vegas, Nevada, because of them it was thought that they could be the first deported by Trump.

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But on Wednesday morning some of the deported migrants returned to the border port of The Chaparralwhere the offices of the National Migration Institute (INM) are located, and it was they themselves who assured that they had already been detained for “more than a month” in the United States.

An INM spokesperson, who asked not to be identified, told the media that these people were part of the hundred who had been deported on Tuesday afternoon, so they had returned to request the institution’s support to return to their cities of origin.

The version was confirmed this Wednesday by the secretary of government of the state of Baja California, Alfredo Álvarez, during the press conference offered by the governor, Marina del Pilar Ávila, where he explained that “what was reported is not correct, because the deportations “They are not derived from the decrees of the new presidency of the United States, that was a regular deportation.”

“This return of Mexicans that occurred corresponds even to the management prior to Trump’s decreethey come with us to claim their repatriation support, since they were detained before this threat arose and, to say that, since the signing of Trump’s decree, the flow of repatriates has not yet been altered.

The official said that, at the moment, they maintain direct information with the INM, with the United States Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP, in English) and the United States Consulate in Tijuana, which are informing them about the procedures that are being carried out. are carrying out that are not, yet, based on an order from Trump.

He stressed that, despite this, the care they are providing to these migrants is within the framework of “the comprehensive care given to all deported compatriots,” who are given the options of being housed in the Integration Center. “Carmen Serdán” or returning to their places of origin.

“The message is clear, in the sense of trying by all means to ensure that any deportation of our countrymen is done within a framework of dignity and respect for human rights. It is a message that we have also shared with the US authorities, for when Trump’s measures come in, since for them it will also imply a change in paradigms and procedures,” he said.

This Wednesday, the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaumrejected the measure of President Trump, who on Tuesday gave way to immigration raids in schools, colleges and churches in that country, previously considered “protected” places.

The decision came a day after Trump took office and emphasized that he will fulfill his campaign promise to carry out the largest campaign of migrant deportations in US history.

In Mexico, the mass deportations promised by Trump are worrying because Mexicans are close to half of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States and their remittances represent almost 4% of Mexico’s gross domestic product (GDP), which in 2024 would have received a estimated record of $65 billion.

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