US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he would impose revenge measures on Colombia, including tariffs, sanctions and travel restrictions, South American countries to deport two US military aircraft as part of Trump’s immigration crackdown. With two US military aircraft deported.
Trump said Colombian President Gustav Petro’s move has jeopardized US national security and has directed his administration to take revenge.
These include imposing an emergency 25 % tax on all the goods coming to the United States, which will increase by 50 % a week. Travel ban and visa cancellation on Colombian government officials and its allies. Fully emergency treasury, banking and financial sanctions and increasing the border inspection of Colombian citizens.
“These measures are just the beginning,” Trump wrote on the truth. ” “We will not allow the Colombian government to violate our legal responsibilities in the acceptance and return of the criminals that they forced in the United States!”
Colombia’s refusal to accept flights is another matter of refusing US military deportation flights.
Petro condemned the exercise, suggesting that he had behaved as a refugee. In a post on the social media platform X, Petro said that Colombia would welcome homes on home -laden houses, and said they should be treated with dignity and respect.
Colombia’s decision is one through Mexico, who also refused to request an American military aircraft to land with migrants last week.
Petro wrote, “The United States cannot consider Colombian immigrants guilty,” he noted that in Colombia, there were 15,660 Americans without the proper status of immigration.
Petro’s comments increase the growing course of dissatisfaction in Latin America as Trump’s old administration begins to mobilize for mass deportation.
The Brazilian Foreign Ministry on Saturday condemned the “derogatory behavior” of Brazilians late when migrants were handcuffed in a commercial deportation flight. According to local reports, some passengers also reported abuse during the flight.
The aircraft, which was carrying 88 Brazilian passengers, 16 US security agents, and eight crew members, was actually arriving in Bello Horizont in the southeastern state of Menas Jeries.
The government said in a statement on Saturday that Brazilian officials ordered the removal of handcuffs, and President Louise Enniso Lola Da Silva nominated a Brazilian Air Force (FAB) flight to complete their journey.
According to Brazilian Federal Police, the trade charter flight this year was the first after the United States deported another non -documentary immigrants back to Brazil and after the inauguration of Trump.
Officials from the US Department of State, the Pentagon, the US Department of Homeland Security and US immigration and Customs Enforcement did not immediately respond to the comments requests.
The use of US military planes to make exile flights is part of the Pentagon’s response to Trump’s national emergency declaration on immigration on Monday.
In the past, US military planes have been used to move from one country to another, such as the withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan in 2021.
This has been the first time in recent memories that US military planes were used to fly migrants out of the country, an American official said.
US military planes made two similar flights to Guatemala on Friday, with nearly 80 migrants each, Guatemala.
