Sheinbaum’s mañanera in 60 seconds

• 🇺🇸 270,000+ Mexicans deported since Trump’s second term began: The INM reported that 271,193 Mexicans were repatriated from the U.S. between Jan. 20, 2025 and Aug. 13, 2026 — 171,508 by land and 99,685 by air on 816 flights, with over 80% of air arrivals landing in Villahermosa or Tapachula.

• 🗺️ Chiapas tops deportee origins: Nearly 9% of repatriated Mexicans (23,915) are from Chiapas, followed by Guanajuato, Guerrero, Veracruz and Oaxaca.

• ⚠️ Visa revocations have “political meaning,” Sheinbaum says: Asked about the U.S. stripping visas from Morena officials — including AMLO’s son López Beltrán and Baja California Gov. Marina del Pilar Ávila — Sheinbaum called it interference in Mexican politics, arguing the U.S. isn’t applying the same standard across Latin America.

• 🚫 “Nothing against the president’s son”: Sheinbaum said there is no case against López Beltrán over fuel smuggling allegations. She said that Mexico won’t shield anyone who committed a crime but also won’t open an investigation just because the U.S. revoked a visa.

Why today’s mañanera matters 

At her Friday morning press conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum addressed issues related to Mexico’s relationship with the United States.

One was deportations of Mexicans from the United States since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to the White House in early 2025. While the Trump administration has pursued an aggressive deportation agenda, the number of Mexicans expelled from the U.S. last year was, in fact, lower than in each of the years of the Biden administration.

Another important issue related to the Mexico-U.S. relationship that Sheinbaum spoke about on Friday morning was the U.S. government’s revocation of visas of Mexican officials affiliated with the ruling Morena party. Her remarks came after one of the sons of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), Andrés Manuel López Beltrán, revealed on Thursday that he had been stripped of his U.S. visa. In a letter addressed to Trump, López Beltrán claimed that the revocation of his visa was politically motivated.

The United States’ cancelation of Mexican officials’ visas adds to the current tension in the bilateral relationship, which has been strained by the CIA’s alleged participation in a drug lab raid in Chihuahua in April without the knowledge and authorization of the Mexican government, U.S. prosecutors’ drug trafficking accusations against Sinaloa Governor Rubén Rocha Moya and other Morena party officials and the Trump administration’s decision to not renew the USMCA, among other issues.

A Morena party governor and Morena mayors are among the Mexican officials who have lost their U.S. visas. The Los Angeles Times reported in June that two other Morena governors have also “been stripped of their U.S. visas amid criminal probes,” but that reporting has not been confirmed.

López Beltrán’s revelation that his U.S. visa has been revoked is another headache for Sheinbaum given that the cancelation inevitably arouses, or increases, suspicions that the ex-president’s son — formerly a top Morena official — has engaged in criminal activities. The president owes at least some of her political success to AMLO, who was her political mentor for years.

Regarding the case against Rocha, Sheinbaum has endorsed the view of the Federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR) that the United States hasn’t presented hard evidence that would warrant the extradition of the governor to the U.S. She reiterated that position on Friday.

More than 270,000 Mexicans deported from US during Trump’s second term 

At the start of the press conference, Sheinbaum told reporters that the government would provide an update on the number of Mexicans “deported or repatriated” to Mexico from the United States during Trump’s second term in office.

She noted that some Mexicans are sent to Mexico on flights that arrive in southern Mexico or at the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA). Others, Sheinbaum acknowledged, are deported directly across the U.S.-Mexico border.

Wherever deported Mexicans arrive, “there is a place to receive them — a Mexico Embraces You space,” she said, referring to centers set up by the government to temporarily house deportees and provide them with a range of assistance and care before they set off to start new lives in Mexico.

Sergio Salomón Céspedes, director of the National Institute of Migration (INM), reported that 271,193 Mexicans were repatriated from the U.S. between Jan. 20, 2025 — the date Trump began his second term — and Aug. 13, 2026.

He said that 171,508 of the deportees entered Mexico by land while the other 99,685 flew into the country.

Céspedes said that the latter cohort arrived on 816 flights that touched down at 10 airports: Villahermosa, Tapachula, AIFA, Tulum, Mexico City, Mérida, Oaxaca, Morelia, Campeche and San Luis Potosí.

Data presented by the INM chief showed that over 80% of the deportees transported to Mexico by air arrived either in Villahermosa or Tapachula. The former city is the capital of Tabasco, while the latter is in Chiapas near the southern state’s border with Guatemala.

Céspedes also presented data that showed that 23,915 of the deportees are originally from Chiapas, a figure that represents almost 9% of the total number of Mexicans repatriated since January 2025. The next most common states of origin of deportees are Guanajuato, Guerrero, Veracruz and Oaxaca.

Sheinbaum: U.S. government’s revocation of visas has a ‘political meaning’

A reporter asked the president about the U.S. government’s cancelation of the U.S. visa of López Beltrán, a former secretary of organization for Morena who is now aiming to be elected as a federal deputy at elections next year. Among the other officials who represent Morena — the party founded by AMLO — and who have also been stripped of their U.S. visas is Baja California Governor Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda, who in a recently-leaked telephone conversation said she was willing to cooperate with U.S. authorities, apparently in order to avoid possible criminal charges in the United States and extradition to that country

Sheinbaum said that her opinion is that “this cancelation of visas … essentially has a political meaning because it’s not at the same level for all countries” in the region, various of which have right-wing governments that earlier this year joined a “counter cartel coalition” established by the United States.

“… We can do a review of what happens in other countries of Latin America and what happens in our country,” she said, tacitly expressing her view that Mexicans and indeed Mexico are being specifically targeted by U.S. authorities.

“This is a form of interference in Mexican politics. This is my opinion because I don’t see another reason,” Sheinbaum said.

“And who uses this [for their advantage]? The Mexican right,” she said, referring to parties such as the National Action Party.

The Mexican right, Sheinbaum added, is becoming “increasingly subservient to the United States.”

Sheinbaum: ‘There is nothing against the president’s son’

Later in the press conference, a reporter asked the president whether she had any information linking López Beltrán to an investigation into a tax evasion/fuel smuggling (huachicol fiscal) scheme.

“There is nothing against the president’s son,” Sheinbaum responded.

“If there was an FGR investigation, we, as I have said, are not going to provide cover for anyone if they committed a crime,” she said.

“But nor are we going to open an investigation because the United States takes away a visa,” Sheinbaum added.

By Mexico News Daily chief staff writer Peter Davies (peter.davies@mexiconewsdaily.com)