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President Donald Trump announces emergency tariffs after Colombia?? refuses to allow U.S. repatriation flights to land.
Deporting illegal aliens, especially those accused or convicted of additional crimes, is a key priority for America today, and Colombia’s refusal… pic.twitter.com/7mF8oRR0gi
— Tyler O’Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) January 26, 2025
Petro, the Colombian leader, wrote on X that the U.S. cannot treat Colombian migrants as criminals, and he announced that he would deny the entry of American planes carrying Colombians back to their original country. He demanded the U.S. establish a protocol to treat migrants with dignity before his country would receive them.
Los EEUU no pueden tratar como delincuentes a los migrantes Colombianos.
Desautorizo la entrada de aviones norteamericanos con migrantes colombianos a nuestro territorio.
EEUU debe establecer un protocolo de tratamiento digno a los migrantes antes que los recibamos nosotros.
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) January 26, 2025
The U.S. and Colombia have a dual criminality extradition treaty. While Petro promised to re-evaluate this treaty, it appears to still be in effect.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, celebrated the move.
“Colombia doesn’t want to pick this fight,” he wrote on X. “If it does so anyway, it’ll end poorly for everyone. Especially Colombia.”
The Colombian leader appears to have changed his tune after Trump’s response.
Petro offered his presidential plane to help repatriate deportees from the U.S. who were set to arrive in the country Sunday morning, CNN reported.
“The measure responds to the government’s commitment to guarantee dignified conditions,” the presidency said in a statement.
Petro had previously demanded the U.S. use civilian, rather than military, aircraft to transport the illegal aliens.
The Brazilian government condemned what it characterized as the “degrading” treatment of Brazilians who were handcuffed by their hands and feet on a repatriation flight, CNN reported. Brasilia claimed the flight, managed by the U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, violated the terms of its repatriation agreement with the U.S.
The deportees claimed that ICE kept the handcuffs on them after the plane crossed into Brazilian airspace.
On Sunday evening, the White House claimed that Colombia had “agreed to all of President Trump’s terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens from Colombia returned from the United States, including on U.S. military aircraft, without limitation or delay.”
“Based on this agreement, the fully drafted IEEPA tariffs and sanctions will be held in reserve, and not signed, unless Colombia fails to honor this agreement,” the White House added. “The visa sanctions issued by the State Department, and enhanced inspections from Customs and Border Protection, will remain in effect until the first planeload of Colombian deportees is successfully returned.”
“Today’s events make clear to the world that America is respected again,” the statement concluded. “President Trump will continue to fiercely protect our nation’s sovereignty, and he expects all other nations of the world to fully cooperate in accepting the deportation of their citizens illegally present in the United States.”
This is a breaking news story and may be updated.
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