In the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency, Mexico has taken in nearly 39,000 individuals deported from the United States, according to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.

Sheinbaum stated during her regular morning press conference on Tuesday that over 33,000 of those deportees were Mexican citizens.

Sheinbaum noted that since the beginning of President Trump’s term, 38,757 people have been deported from the U.S. to Mexico, including 33,311 Mexicans and 5,446 individuals of other nationalities.

Sheinbaum explained that the majority of those returning to Mexico are Mexicans because the U.S. government has agreements through the Department of State to send them directly back to their country.

The Mexican president stated that Mexico decided to accept people of other nationalities, especially those arriving by land, for “humanitarian reasons.”

Sheinbaum said fewer deportees of other nationalities were arriving in Mexico because the U.S. government has agreements with “practically all of those countries” to send planes directly to their citizens’ home countries.

The Mexican president also noted that most Mexicans were flown from the U.S., and the majority of foreigners accepted into Mexico have “voluntarily” chosen to return to their countries of origin.

According to Reuters, Mexican data indicates that approximately 52,000 deportees were accepted from the U.S. in February, March, and April of the previous year. Therefore, Mexico has accepted fewer deportees from the U.S. since the start of Trump’s second term compared to the same period last year under former President Joe Biden’s administration.

Reuters reports that U.S.-Mexico border crossings have slowed as migrants, deterred by Trump’s promised border crackdown and mass deportation plans, have increasingly abandoned their journeys north through Mexico and returned home.

Anticipating a potential influx of people earlier in the year, the Mexican government began constructing large encampments in Ciudad Juárez in January, capable of housing thousands of people, according to city official Enrique Licon.

Licon described the effort to build shelter and reception centers in nine cities south of the U.S.-Mexico border as “unprecedented” on Tuesday.

The Mexican government also organized bus fleets to transport Mexican nationals from reception centers back to their hometowns.

Sheinbaum has consistently affirmed Mexico’s commitment to receiving and supporting its returned nationals, emphasizing that “Mexican migrants are not criminals.”

Sheinbaum’s administration has also launched the “México te abraza” (“Mexico embraces you”) initiative, which offers deportees financial assistance, healthcare access, and transportation. In addition, Mexico has been creating thousands of jobs aimed at reintegrating migrants into the workforce, according to .

‘ Chris Pandolfo and Reuters contributed to this report.

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