MEXICO CITY, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- Top U.S. envoys on a working visit to Mexico on Thursday tried to allay fears that their government was preparing to massively deport undocumented migrants back across the border.

The reassurances came during a joint press conference by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly, following their meeting with Mexico's Ministers of Foreign Affairs and the Interior, Luis Videgaray and Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, in Mexico City.

"Let me be very very clear, there will be no, repeat no mass deportations. Everything we do at Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will be done legally and according to human rights in the legal justice system of the United States," Kelly said.

U.S. President Donald Trump's vow to crack down on undocumented migrants has struck fear into immigrants living in the United States, and Mexican officials are concerned that massive deportations could lead to a humanitarian crisis along the border.

Kelly said that "the focus of deportations will be on the criminal element that has made it into the United States. All of this will be done, as it always has been, in close coordination with the government of Mexico."

While there will be "no use of military force" in deportation proceedings, said Kelly, a retired Marine Corps general, "we will approach this operation systematically, in a results-oriented way, in an operational way, and in a human dignity way."

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