Mexico will not allow the United States to send Mexican migrants to Guantanamo Bay and prefers to receive them directly instead, Mexico's foreign minister said on Tuesday. The Mexican government sent a diplomatic note to the U.

A plane-load of deported migrants lands at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the first step of an expected surge in the number of migrants sent to the U.S. Navy base there.

The move was condemned by the Mexican foreign minister who said that migrants should only be deported to their homeland.