MEXICO CITY _ Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly, on a visit to Mexico, said Thursday that there will be no mass deportations of people living in the U.S. illegally.
Kelly also said U.S. military forces would not be used in deportation efforts and that any deportation cases would go through the U.S. legal system.
"No. Repeat, no use of military force in immigration operations," Kelly said at a news conference at the Foreign Relations Ministry in Mexico City. "None. We'll approach this operation systematically, in an organized way, in a results-oriented way, in an operation and in a human dignity way."
Kelly and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson are in Mexico City to discuss a wide variety of issues, including immigration and security, with Mexican government officials.
Kelly's remarks came the same day President Donald Trump called recent raids in the U.S. an unprecedented enforcement effort.
"You see what's happening at the border. All of a sudden for the first time, we're getting gang members out," he said. "We're getting really bad dudes out of this country, and at a rate that nobody's ever seen before."
