The deportation flight was blocked from leaving the US after two Air Force C-17 flights, each carrying about 80 deportees to Guatemala, successfully took off Thursday night.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said early Friday morning deportation flights had begun, marking the first deportation flights using military aircraft since President Dwight Eisenhower was in office, Reuters reported, citing an unnamed U.S. official.

The Trump administration's use of U.S. military aircraft to return deportees has raised alarms throughout Latin America.

Mexico has received non-Mexican migrants from the United States in the past week, and Central American nations could also reach similar agreements with the U.S. to accept deportees from other countries,

Mexico reportedly denied access to land for a U.S. military plane that was slated to return deportees to the country, according to reports.

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.

Mexico refused to allow a US military plane with migrants on board to land on its territory. This was reported by NBC with reference to two representatives of the US Department of Defense and a source familiar with the situation.

WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY – Mexico has refused a request from President Donald Trump’s administration to allow a US military aircraft deporting migrants to land in the country, a US official and a Mexican official told Reuters. The US military carried out two similar flights, each with about 80 migrants, to Guatemala o n Jan 24.

According to the NBC News report, two U.S. Air Force C-17s bound for Guatemala, each carrying around 80 people, flew deportees out of the U.S. on Thursday. However, a third flight, which was scheduled to land in Mexico, did not depart after it was not granted permission to land.

FileMexico refused a request from President Donald Trump’s administration to allow a U.S. military aircraft deporting migrants to land in the country, said U.S. and Mexican officials.:: Guatemala City,

An official said it was the first time in recent memory that American military aircraft were being used to fly migrants out of the US.

Two military jets landed in Guatemala City on Friday carrying deported migrants from Tucson, Ariz., and El Paso, according to local migration authorities and the American Embassy in Guatemala.