Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum assured on Tuesday that her Government will return to their countries of origin to migrants stranded in Mexico affected by the new immigration restrictions of the President of the United States, Donald Trump.

“We would look for the mechanisms through the migration policy and the foreign policy of return to their countries of origin, for example, there is an agreement with Guatemala, with practically all Central American countries, in fact there was a meeting last Friday for it, there is an agreement with Cuba,” he warned at his press conference.

The president promised “humanitarian attention” to migrants from other nations, particularly from Latin America, who are in Mexico and who can no longer cross to the United States, but insisted that the new Trump Government must directly deport undocumented immigrants to their places of origin and not to Mexican territory.

The president did not clarify whether the Government of Mexico would pay for these repatriations or the United States would.

“It’s what we’re going to talk about (talk) with the United States Government,” he said.

In particular, Sheinbaum referred to the new decree of the Trump president that reinstates the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), also called ‘Stay in Mexico’, which forces US asylum seekers to wait in Mexican territory.

The president argued that “more than receiving” these migrants “because the MPP is a decision of the United States”, Mexico would give them “humanitarian attention”.

“So the point is, if they are in Mexican territory those people we attend them for humanitarian reasons, but we seek within the framework of our migration policy, being foreigners, their return to their country of origin,” he argued.

Sheinbaum offered the same to the migrants who were stranded in Mexico after Trump’s cancellation of the ‘CBP One’ application of the Office of Customs and Border Protection to request US asylum from Mexican territory.

“Of course they are voluntary returns, but it is important to inform them that, as we have been doing since we arrived in October (at the Government) and that is why this integral humanitarian policy that we follow, that arriving at the border they will not be able to enter the United States,” he remarked.

The head of state reiterated that her government is ready for mass deportations, which would affect in particular Mexico, the origin of about half of the 11 million undocumented in the United States and whose remittances represent almost 4% of the Mexican gross domestic product (GDP).

After Gaza and Lebanon, today we begin, with God’s help, to change the security situation in Judea and Samaria (the biblical name for the West Bank),” Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced on Tuesday.

Shortly before, the Army began a large-scale raid in Yenin, in the north of the occupied territory, which so far has claimed the lives of nine Palestinians and injured 35 others.

Just two days after the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip came into force, the attention of the armed forces has been diverted to the West Bank: dozens of excavators have accessed Yenin and its refugee camp with Israeli troops, and drone attacks and shots from Army helicopters have been recorded.

In an unusual move, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly announced the start of the operation, dumbled “Iron Wall”: “We are acting systematically and decisively against the Iranian axis wherever it sends its weapons, in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Judea and Samaria.”

Interviewed by the official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, the director of the Government Hospital of Yenin, Wissam Bakr, regretted that the speed with which the morning rounding was unfolding did not correctly count the number of injured, which was constantly evolving.

Videos recorded in the city and its refugee camp show how Israeli excavators advance through the streets, razing the roads.

In one of them, an old man crosses the street carrying a bag while the shots hit near his feet. In another, a nurse who walks with another man down the street has to run away when someone opens fire on them.

In the channels of the Palestinian Red Crescent emergency service, the announcements of the transfer of the shot wounds from different areas of the city to the hospitals became a constant as the afternoon progressed.

“The occupation forces (Israel) prevent our teams from reaching the wounded inside the refugee camp when we receive the reports,” the group said this morning.

Following the announcement of the offensive, the Islamist group Hamas today urged both Palestinian civilians and their militiamen to respond to the Israeli army and counterattack.

“We call on the masses of our people in the West Bank and their revolutionary youth to mobilize and intensify the clashes against the occupying Army at all points, and to work to thwart the extensive Zionist aggression against the city of Yenin,” the group said in a statement.

Hamas also accused the forces of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), in the hands of the secular Fatah party, of having abandoned Yenin to allow the operation of Israeli troops instead of defending the Palestinians.

The security forces of the ANP (which governs in small parts of the West Bank) concluded on Friday a 42-day operation in Yenin that ended in the death of police, militiamen and civilians, and which from the Palestinian factions was seen as a demonstration of power of the ANP to demonstrate to Israel its ability to manage security in Gaza after the ceasefire.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad, one of the predominant movements in the Yenin camp, also assured that Netanyahu is trying to “save his shaken government coalition” with the operation in the West Bank, after having “failed” in Gaza.

On Saturday, when there were still hours left for the ceasefire to take effect, the Israeli Army warned that it was preparing to increase its presence in the West Bank with up to seven companies, on the occasion of the release of Palestinian prisoners contemplated by the agreement, in exchange for the hostages.

Among Netanyahu’s radical partners (such as the former Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, or the head of Finance, Smotrich) the release of Palestinian prisoners earned the agreement qualifications as “disastrous” or “dangerous”.

The support of at least one of them is essential for Netanyahu to maintain the current government coalition, so, in view of Ben Gvir’s resignation, the prime minister met with Smotrich up to five times to prevent him from leaving the Executive.

Numerous Israeli media reported that Netanyahu put on the table to increase the Israeli presence in the West Bank as a condition for Smotrich not to leave the coalition. When the Executive voted this Friday for the agreement, Smotrich voted against it, but did not leave the Government.

US President Donald Trump began his first day in power on Tuesday with an interreligious service in the National Cathedral of Washington, an event that marks the closing of the acts of his inauguration, and later he will meet with leaders of Congress and make a “big announcement” on infrastructure.

Trump attended the ceremony with the first lady, Melania Trump. From the front row, both listened in silence and with a solemn gesture to the prayers, the melodies of the organ and the songs, including a ‘Hail Mary’. Next to him were the vice president, JD Vance and his wife, Usha.

This type of service has been a tradition since 1993, when the new president attends a prayer ceremony the morning after his inauguration.

Less than two weeks ago, Trump was in that same cathedral for the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter (1977-1981), where he was seen talking animatedly with Barack Obama (2009-2017). At that event, Trump sat in the second row, while the first was reserved for the then president, Joe Biden.

In addition to religious service, Trump plans to meet this Tuesday afternoon at the White House with important Republican legislators, including the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, and the leader of the majority in the Senate, John Thune, to discuss his legislative agenda.

Later, around 16.30 local time (21.30 GMT), he will make statements at the White House and make a “great announcement about infrastructure,” according to his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, in an interview with Fox News.

At 27 years old, Leavitt has become the youngest spokesperson in the history of the White House. Before her, Ron Ziegler held that record, assuming office at the age of 29 during the presidency of Richard Nixon (1969-1974).

Leavitt explained to the Fox network that there will be no press conference today, since Trump himself will appear before the journalists.

During the Biden Administration (2021-2025), press conferences were held almost daily, as were in the Obama (2009-2017) and George W. governments. Bush (2001-2009).

However, Trump, who has maintained a tense relationship with the press and has described the media as “enemies of the people” and “fake news”, ordered to drastically reduce the frequency of these appearances in his first term (2017-2021).

As a result, the press conferences became sporadic, depending on the acting press secretary, and a record of more than 300 days without appearances was set between March 2019 and January 2020.

It remains to be seen if in this new stage he will choose to maintain that strategy or if the spokesmen will have more frequent contact with the media.