The United States has deported and sent some 2,300 Mexicans to Guatemala this year in a shifting Trump administration practice that Mexico opposes.
Mexican deportees from the US, until recently, were largely sent directly back to their country, with only a few arriving in other countries.
On Wednesday, Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo confirmed that 2,284 Mexicans deported from the US have arrived in his Central American country so far this year.
"They are arriving in planes of Guatemalan returnees," Arevalo said in a televised interview.
He said the deported Mexicans are arriving in a "transit stopover" before being taken to Mexico as part of an "arrangement" with Mexico's government.
