The United States and Colombia, long-time allies in anti-narcotics efforts, have engaged in a diplomatic dispute sparked by Colombia's refusal to accept two US military aircraft carrying deported migrants. The US imposed visa restrictions and tariffs on Colombian goods, while Colombia retaliated with a 25% tariff increase on US imports.
Juan J. Eraso—Long Visual Press/Universal Images Group/Getty ImagesBOGOTA, Colombia — The United States and Colombia , long close partners in anti-narcotics efforts, clashed Sunday over the deportation of migrants and imposed tariffs on each other’s goods in a show of what countries could face if they intervene in the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
“These measures are just the beginning,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “We will not allow the Colombian Government to violate its legal obligations with regard to the acceptance and return of the Criminals they forced into the United States.” “A migrant is not a criminal and must be treated with the dignity that a human being deserves,” Petro said. “That is why I returned the U.S. military planes that were carrying Colombian migrants... In civilian planes, without being treated like criminals, we will receive our fellow citizens.”
Colombia is also among the countries that last year began accepting U.S.-funded deportation flights from Panama. Colombians emerged in recent years as a major presence on the U.S. border with Mexico, aided in part by a visa regime that allows them to easily fly to Mexico and avoid trekking though the treacherous Darien Gap. They ranked fourth with 127,604 arrests for illegal crossings during a 12-month period through September, behind Mexicans, Guatemalans and Venezuelans.
Two U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo planes carrying migrants removed from the U.S. touched down early Friday in Guatemala. That same day, Honduras received two deportation flights carrying a total of 193 people.
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