Trump orders sanctions on Colombia after Petro blocks deportation flights

President Gustavo Petro says Bogota volition artifact US deportation flights until migrants are guaranteed ‘dignified treatment’.

US President Donald Trump has promised to enforce tariffs and visa restrictions connected Colombia aft Bogota turned distant 2 US subject craft transporting migrants being deported nether Trump’s migration crackdown.

Washington volition slap Colombia with 25 percent “emergency tariffs” connected each goods coming into the US, which would past beryllium raised to 50 percent successful a week, Trump wrote connected Truth Social, the societal media level that helium owns connected Sunday.

He added that his medication volition enforce a “travel prohibition and contiguous visa revocations” and “visa sanctions” connected authorities officials, arsenic good arsenic their household members and supporters.

The menace comes aft Colombian President Gustavo Petro said his authorities would not judge flights carrying migrants deported from the United States until its medication creates a protocol that treats them with “dignity”.

Petro made the announcement successful 2 X posts, 1 of which included a quality video of migrants reportedly deported to Brazil walking connected a tarmac with their hands and feet restrained.

“A migrant is not a transgression and indispensable beryllium treated with the dignity that a quality being deserves,” Petro said.

“That is wherefore I returned the US subject planes that were carrying Colombian migrants.”

Petro added that his state would person Colombians successful “civilian planes” and “without attraction similar criminals”.

Earlier connected Sunday, Trump’s borderline czar told ABC News helium was convinced that countries reluctant to instrumentality backmost citizens would cave nether US pressure.

“Oh, they’ll instrumentality them back,” Tom Homan.

If governments refused, “then we’ll spot them [migrants] successful a 3rd harmless country”, Homan said, without specifying which countries would suffice arsenic “safe”.

Threat of deportations

Trump’s threats to deport millions of migrants without papers person enactment him connected a imaginable collision people with governments successful Latin America, the archetypal location to galore of the estimated 11 cardinal undocumented migrants successful the US.

Under Trump’s archetypal presidency successful 2017-2021, Mexico agreed to instrumentality successful non-Mexican migrants deported from the US aft being threatened by Trump with punitive commercialized tariffs.

Under US President Joe Biden successful 2021-2025, however, Washington reverted to deporting non-Mexican migrants straight to their countries.

On Friday, 2 Air Force C-17 cargo planes carrying migrants removed from the US touched down successful Guatemala.

On the aforesaid day, Honduras received 2 deportation flights carrying a full of 193 people.

As portion of a flurry of actions to marque bully connected Trump’s run promises to ace down connected irregular immigration, his authorities is besides utilizing active-duty subject to transportation retired deportations.