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Colombia sends air force planes to bring home migrants deported from the US

A Colombian Air Force jet is expected to land back in the country early Tuesday carrying 110 Colombians deported from the United States.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro refused to allow U.S. Military planes to send deported Colombians back home, prompting a dispute with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Trump threatened tariffs, which Petro said he would reciprocate before both countries reached an agreement to defuse the situation.
Petro stated that the Colombian Air Force flights would allow migrants to travel home without being handcuffed, emphasizing dignity for deportees.

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West Central Tribune

Cal Thomas: Migrant wars goes fast and furious

When President Trump threatened to slap tariffs on Colombia if President Gustavo Petro did not accept criminal migrants deported from the U.S., he did not get the initial response he expected. Instead of immediately caving to Trump, Petro countered with plans for his own tariffs on U.S. goods coming into Colombia, then issued a fiery statement in which he called the U.S. president a "white slaver" who is trying to "wipe out the human species bec…

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CNN

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Inside the ordeal of deported migrants as US and Colombia squared off

Daniel Oquendo, 33, remembers well the first words US border agents told him after he crossed the US-Mexico border on January 20.

25 days ago·Atlanta, United States

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El Universo

‘A flight that seemed endless’: by military plane more Ecuadorians arrived from the United States to Guayaquil this Tuesday

With a cover with his documents and after almost eight hours of travel dozens of citizens arrived in Ecuador from El Paso, in the United States.

25 days ago

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Florida Politics

Delegation for 1.28.25: Coffee clash — in the Navy — marching orders — gassy

Colombian brew President Donald Trump’s foreign policy of bluster and threats faced a first test this weekend in Colombia. The Republican President and Colombia’s leftist leader, Gustavo Petro, played the strongman role through public disagreements. When Colombia refused to allow two planes of deported migrants back into the country, Trump over Truth Social threatened severe sanctions, including tariffs on Colombian goods of 25% that would quick…

26 days ago·Florida, United States

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KMIZ

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Colombian government expects the U.S. to resume issuance of visas in Bogotá this week

By Sebastian Jimenez, CNN en Español Following the arrival in Bogotá of two flights with deported Colombians from the United States, the Colombian government reported that it expects the Trump administration to reactivate the issuance of visas at its embassy in Bogotá this week, an operation suspended in response to President Gustavo Petro's temporary refusal to receive the flights last Sunday. The announcement came after the outgoing Colombian …

26 days ago

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El Pais

Deportees at the center of Trump’s spat with Colombia: ‘We are not drug traffickers’

EL PAÍS speaks with the migrants deported on the military planes that the Colombian president refused to let land, a decision that nearly triggered a trade war

26 days ago·Spain

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