Honduran President Xiomara Castro threatened President-elect Donald Trump during her New Year’s address that if he moves forward with his plan to implement mass deportations of illegal immigrants, including Hondurans, she will expel U.S. military bases from the country.

“Faced with a hostile attitude of mass expulsion of our brothers, we would have to consider a change in our policies of cooperation with the United States, especially in the military arena, where, without paying a cent for decades,” said President Castro.

“They maintain military bases in our territory, which in this case would lose all reason to exist in Honduras,” she added.

According to Honduran government data reviewed by Newsweek, approximately two million Honduran immigrants are living and working in the U.S.

Based on separate 2019 data, 46.9 percent of Hondurans in the US are facing “irregular” immigration status, meaning they are in the country illegally.

That number came before President Joe Biden oversaw a historic surge of illegal immigration into the U.S.

Data is scarce and often conflicting regarding the exact number of U.S. military bases in Honduras.

One source, The Gun Zone, claims that there is only one U.S. base in the country, the Soto Cano Air Base.

The Mexican Center for International Relations believes that there are nine, including bases technically operated by the Honduran military but with U.S. military personnel stationed there.

Trump’s promise to carry out mass deportations has angered many on the left, who often claim that the immigrants in the U.S. illegally provide untold benefits to the nation.

Interestingly, the home nations of those illegal immigrants often try to refuse to take back the immigrants, allegedly strengthening the U.S.

President-elect Trump did not respond to Castro’s threats, and has not indicated that they will make him reconsider his stance on deportations.