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Mexico's president says she will ask President-elect Trump not to send non-Mexican migrants

to Mexico.

In Peerzade of Peralta reports it's a veiled threat to the incoming administration.

Both the Biden administration and the first Trump administration

have relied on Mexico for their policy of express deportation.

Some countries like Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua

have in the past refused plain loads of deportees.

So the U.S. asked Mexico to take on those migrants.

To appease the United States,

Mexico has taken tens of thousands of deportees each

month. But Mexican President Claudio Schaembaum says, if Trump begins to deport Mexican immigrants,

things will change.

We would reach an agreement, she says, in which the U.S. would have to directly deport migrants.

The implication is that Mexico could have the power to throw a monkey rent. he says, in which the U.S. would have to directly deport migrants.

The implication is that Mexico could have the power to throw a monkey wrench into Trump's mass deportation plans.

Eidapalta, NPR News, Mexico City.

Pete Hegeseth, President-elect Trump's battle picked ahead the Department of Defense,

has submitted paperwork for the standard FBI background check of all nominees. Meanwhile, Vice President-elect Vance today supported Hegsef for the

job amid allegations of sexual and financial misconduct. We believe that Pete Hegseth is the right

guy to lead the Department of Defense. That's why President Trump nominated him. We're not

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