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Mexico Confirms It Received About 4,000 Deportees On Trump's First Week, President Says It's Not a 'Substantial Increase'

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum (Credit: Via Getty Images)

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday the country received about 4,000 deportees from the U.S. during the first week of the Donald Trump administration, adding that the figure did not represent a "substantial increase" from previous weeks.

"If we take the weekly figure it is a number that our country has seen in other occasions," Sheinbaum said during her daily press conference. She added that four deportation flights landed in Mexico over the past days, a figure that is also not unprecedented.

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