U.S. authorities on Friday removed dozens of migrants through a border crossing in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, and Mexican authorities immediately placed them on buses and drove them south, away from Juarez.

Mexico is constructing tents to receive Mexican nationals deported under Trump's mass deportations and provide them with services to help resettle.

This was the first time in recent memory that military aircraft were used to fly migrants out of the country, one U.S. official said.

The U.S. government has worked to strengthen border security and enforce deportation policies, while Mexico has sought to balance cooperation with its own national interests. Tensions over immigration policies have repeatedly surfaced,

Mexico reportedly refused to accept a US deportation flight Thursday. The neighbouring country denied the US military plane access to land, sources told NBC News. Meanwhile, Reuters cited a US official and a Mexican official as saying that Mexico refused a request from President Donald Trump's administration to allow a US military aircraft to land in the country with migrants being deported by his administration.