Petro block exile flights or Trump ordered restrictions on Colombia, migration news
President Gustavo Petro says that Bogota will prevent American exile flights until the migrants are guaranteed ‘dignified treatment’.
US President Donald Trump has promised to impose tariffs and visa ban on Colombia, when two US military aircraft of Bogota were transferred after transferring two US military aircraft to be deported under Trump’s immigration crack.
Washington will slap Colombia with 25 percent “emergency tariff” on all the goods coming in the US, which will then increase by 50 percent in a week, Trump wrote on the truth social, social media platform which he is on Sunday. .
He said that his administration would implement “travel ban and immediate visa revisions” and “visa restrictions” along with government officials.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro said that his government would not accept flights carrying exile from the United States, unless its administration makes a protocol that does not treat them with “dignity”.
Petro announced in two x posts, one of which included a news video of migrants, allegedly excluding Brazil walking on a turgc with his hands and feet.
Petro said, “A migrant is not a criminal and should be treated with the dignity that a human being deserves.”
“This is why I returned American military aircraft carrying colombian migrants.”
Petro said that his country would receive Colombians in “civic aircraft” and “without treatment like criminals”.
Earlier on Sunday, Trump’s Seema Caesar told ABC News that he was convinced that the countries reluctant to withdraw citizens would be caused by American pressure.
“Oh, they will take them back,” Tom Homan.
If the governments refused, “We will put them (migrants) in a third safe country”, Homan said, without specifying which countries will qualify as “safe”.
Danger of exile
Trump’s threats to deport millions of migrants without papers put them in a possible collision course with governments in Latin America, which is the original house for many of the estimated 11 million unspecified migrants in the US.
Under Trump’s first chairmanship in 2017-2021, Mexico agreed to take non-Maxican migrants exempted from the US after Trump threatened with punitive trade tariffs.
Under the US President Joe Biden in 2021–2025, however, Washington sent non-Maxican migrants directly to his countries.
On Friday, two Air Force C -17 cargo aircraft were touched by migrants who were removed from the US in Guatemala.
On the same day, Honduras received two exile flights to a total of 193 people.
As part of a hurry of tasks to do well on Trump’s campaign, promises to tighten up on irregular immigration, his government is also using the active-Kartavya army to carry out exile.
