DHAKA: The Mexican government is working on a plan to deal with possible mass deportations under President-elect Donald Trump, a presidential spokesman says.

In a press conference on Monday (November 14), Eduardo Sanchez, spokesman for Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto told that deportations would be part of any agenda discussed by Pena Nieto and Trump, reports CNN.

“We will have to see how many of those deportations, usually done by the United States government to the countries where the illegal immigrants are from, are for Mexico,” he said.

“Of course this and other matters will be part of the agenda that Mexico brings to the table during the bilateral meetings that will take place with the government-elect of President-elect Donald Trump.”

Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz is coordinating the efforts, he added, and plans to have a series of measures ready should the deportations begin.

During a CBS “60 Minutes” interview on Sunday (November 12), Trump said he would look to deport, or incarcerate, up to 3 million illegal immigrants.

“What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, we have a lot of these people, probably two million, it could be even three million, we are getting them out of our country or we’re going to incarcerate.”

Pena Nieto has expressed interested in meeting with Trump before he takes office on January 20. 

This would be the second meeting between the two.

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