U.S. military and police forces began the first deportation flights for illegal immigrants under President Donald Trump's hardline immigration crackdown nationwide and particularly at the southern border.

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.

“Deportation flights have begun,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on X, formerly Twitter. On Friday, two U.S. military aircraft, each carrying about 80 migrants, flew from the U.S. to Guatemala, a U.S. official told reporters.