The arrival of deportees in Mexico since U.S. President Donald Trump took office last week and the midair collision between a plane and a helicopter in Washington D.C. on Wednesday night were among the issues President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke about at her Thursday morning press conference.
She also commented briefly on the case of a well-known social media content creator who was convicted of attempted femicide and sentenced to a lengthy prison sentence on Wednesday.

More than 6,000 deportees have arrived in Mexico; 2 said their human rights were violated
Sheinbaum said that 5,282 people were deported to Mexico from the United States between Jan. 20 and 26 — the first seven days of the second Trump administration.
The number is higher than the 4,094 deportees she cited for the same period when speaking to reporters on Monday.
Sheinbaum said that an additional 527 people were deported to Mexico on Monday, Jan. 27, and that 435 deportees arrived on Tuesday.
All told, 6,244 people were deported to Mexico from the United States between Jan. 20 and Jan. 28, according to the figures cited by the president. About three-quarters of that number are Mexican.
Sheinbaum said that deportees are interviewed by Mexican authorities when they arrive “to find out whether their human rights were violated” after they were detained in the U.S.

“We have two cases: one of a Guatemalan woman and another of a compatriot,” she said.
Sheinbaum declined to specify the nature of their complaints but told reporters that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would report the cases to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Before he took office, Trump pledged to carry out “the largest deportation operation in American history.”
Last week, the Mexican government unveiled a support plan for deportees called “México te abraza” (Mexico embraces you).
‘Zero impunity for femicide’
A reporter asked Sheinbaum about the case of Rodolfo “Fofo” Márquez, a social media influencer who was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for attempted femicide after he attacked a 52-year-old woman in a parking lot in Naucalpan, México state, in early 2024.
The attack occurred after the woman accidentally hit the side mirror of Márquez’s vehicle with the side mirror of her own car. Video footage showed the 27-year-old influencer punching and kicking his victim.
Sheinbaum made her view on violence against women very clear.
“Zero impunity for femicide, zero impunity,” she said.
“… Any death due to violence is terrible, but femicide is classified as ‘a violent death due to the sole fact of being a woman.’ So zero impunity for femicide,” Sheinbaum said.

Sheinbaum comments on Washington D.C. plane crash
Sheinbaum described Wednesday’s fatal crash between an American Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 plane and a United States Army Black Hawk helicopter as “very terrible.”
“Our solidarity with the families who lost a loved one and the people who died,” she said.
A total of 67 people — 60 passengers and four crew members on the American Airlines flight and three soldiers on board the helicopter — were killed, according to authorities in the United States.
The collision was the deadliest air crash in the United States since 2021, the Associated Press reported.
Mexico’s worst-ever aviation disaster was the crash of a Mexicana de Aviación flight in Michoacán in March 1986. All 167 passengers and crew onboard the Boeing 727-200 plane were killed.
In July 2018, Aeroméxico Connect flight 2431 crashed shortly after taking off from the Durango International Airport, but all 103 people onboard the Embraer plane survived.
By Mexico News Daily chief staff writer Peter Davies ([email protected])
2 out of 6,000 is better than that dealt out to U.S.A. citizens esp. minorities by law enforcement and penal institutions in the U.S.A. Watch out for cages, family separations, and Guantanamo Bay.
How wonderful that the Mexican president expressed thoughts about the lost people and their families from the avaition crash.
While the US president blames dioversity on air controllers and never mentions the human side of the catastrope . I am sure all of us US expats living here are sadened and exceedely angry and embarrassed by the US president.
Why would I be embarrassed by the President?
I guess you wouldn’t if you had no humanity.
She is a wonderful president. I hope she continues to be courageous enough to not be dominated by Trump. She is someone women should look up to, and especially her country , it can be so powerful and great with the correct person leading. She is strong in her actions against what Trump wants to an extent and she could probably turn her country around and make it great!
Those deportees committed crimes against Americans and stole from taxpayers. Mexico owes the US. This is why a 25% tariff is coming soon. Enjoy.
Do you have direct personal knowledge of what any of the 6,000 may have “stolen” from taxpayers? I betcha many of them have in fact paid US and state taxes, making them “taxpayers” too.
Free education, health care, jobs that American’s should be doing, driving up housing prices…..
Oh yes, I agree, now the USA owes Mexico the state of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, California, Idaho and part of Oregon. pay your fair share Jim.
If they are criminals they deserve deportation. If they are law abiding residents with jobs they deserve some consideration. Mexico owes the US nothing. Using tariffs to threaten your top trading partners is silly and may back fire..
I just would like to make a comment about immigration to the USA and point out the following: I immigrated to the USA late 1978 at which time the USA had a population of about 225 million. In comparison the US population now is more than 330 million. Most of the increase in population is due to legal immigration. I find it objectionable to paint a false narrative around the subject of immigration and immigration laws.
Imagine that every third person you may meet somewhere statistically speaking could be an immigrant of the past 45 years….
Most Mexican immigrants pay taxes and are hard working people. Just wait until there are not any workers in the fields and in the construction industry or hospitality. There are already reports that industries are suffering because the workers are not showing up to work because they are afraid!
“One of the most common arguments for curtailing immigration is the cost borne by the US government. But undocumented immigrants pay more than a quarter, about 26%, of their income in taxes, in line with the median taxpayer, according to a report released Tuesday by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a left-leaning think tank.
In total, undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion, or roughly $9,000 per person, in taxes in 2022, the report shows.”
-from Bloombergtax.com
Why do you think it is okay to come to our country illegally. How have you convinced yourselves that you have this right?
It is not your country
You stole it from indigenous people who were here thousands of years before
Cuantos periodistas an matado en Mexico y el gobierno nada que hace y mujeres, ninos bueno no se diga. She should be ashame of herself pretending to care for the mexican people when their government is the problem and that’s why so many people flee the country they love so much.
Cuantos personas an matado en Los Estados Unidos y el gobierno hace nada.
What is not being reported is that numerous deported men are being re-arrested as they are returned to Mexico for warrants in Mexico. They fled to the US and now they get to see justice in a Mexican jail. Oh boy. Keep deporting these bad guys.
Right. And you know this how?
All the mexicans please line up at Home Depot. Don’t worry about the large truck you are being put into. In just a few hours you will be in another country. Thank GOD not the United States of America.
Get rid of the trash, and if they try to come back, put them in prison for life.
Anger seems to be the order of the day. Why? We can argue about immigration, but, as one illegal put it, there are two signs on the border:
1. Don’t dare come here.
2. Help wanted.
That’s the essence of the problem. Take any 12 of us readers of MND, and I guarantee you we can come up with a sensible plan, ways to evaluate it, and ways to adjust it. It takes good will, that’s all.