President Trump stated Sunday he’s inserting tariffs, a journey ban and different measures on Colombia after the nation’s authorities rejected two planes carrying migrants and the nation’s president stated he would prohibit the entry of deportation flights from the U.S.
“I used to be simply knowledgeable that two repatriation flights from the USA, with numerous Unlawful Criminals, weren’t allowed to land in Colombia. This order was given by Colombia’s Socialist President Gustavo Petro, who’s already very unpopular amongst his individuals,” Trump stated in a put up on Reality Social.
Trump added that the Colombian president’s “denial of those flights has jeopardized the Nationwide Safety and Public Security of the USA,” and that, due to this fact, he had “directed my Administration to instantly take the next pressing and decisive retaliatory measures,” together with U.S.-bound items going through tariffs of 25 % and the prohibition of journey “on the Colombian Authorities Officers, and all Allies and Supporters.”
“These measures are only the start. We won’t permit the Colombian Authorities to violate its authorized obligations with regard to the acceptance and return of the Criminals they compelled into the USA!” Trump stated.
Trump campaigned heavily in the last election on the difficulty of immigration, and members of his new administration have regarded to intensely promote any motion on the matter throughout the president’s first few days in workplace.
“The US can’t deal with Colombian migrants as criminals,” the Colombian president said on the social platform X earlier Sunday. “I deny the entry of American planes carrying Colombian migrants into our territory.”
On Friday, a White Home spokesperson said the Trump administration had commenced with the flying of immigrants who had come into the U.S. illegally away from the nation by way of army plane.
“Deportation flights have begun,” White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on X. “President Trump is sending a powerful and clear message to your entire world: in the event you illegally enter the USA of America, you’ll face extreme penalties.”
Up to date at 3:12 p.m. EDT
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