Trump imposes definitions and sanctions on Colombia on deportations

Donald Trump launched a wave of reprisal measures against Colombia, including 25 percent of the customs tariff for its goods, after the Latin American country refused to enter American military flights to deport migrants.

Trump criticized after the Left President in Colombia Gustavo Petro refused to receive the American plane in protest against the way passengers are treated on the plane.

Trump said in a post on the social truth on Sunday that Petro’s move “was at risk to national security and public safety of the United States.”

In revenge, the emergency tariff was announced by 25 percent, which will increase to 50 percent a week, as well as travel ban and “immediately thwart the visa” on Colombian government officials “and all allies and supporters.

He also announced the reinforced border inspections of all Colombian citizens and shipping.

“These measures are only the beginning,” Trump wrote in a post on the social truth. “We will not allow the Colombian government to violate its legal obligations regarding the acceptance of criminals who were forced into criminals to the United States!”

Petro had previously written in a post on X that the migrants who were deported should be dealt with “dignity and respect.”

“Our brothers will receive citizens on civilian aircraft, without treating them like criminals.”

Petro said on Sunday that Colombia had already led to the removal of US military aircraft carrying a fraternity this week. A Reuters official told a Reuters that two trips bearing a total of 160 deportations had been rejected.

“Colombia sends nearly a third of its exports to the United States, so this emergency tariff and the threat to raise it is more serious,” said Will Freeman, a colleague of Latin American studies in the Council of Foreign Relations.

“He explains that wherever the Trump administration determines that the United States still has influence, it will fully use it to comply with the collective deportation policy.”

Trump has promised to implement the largest mass deportation of illegal immigrants in the history of the United States, which prompted uncertainty among immigrants who do not hold 11 million documents in the United States and resist potential partners in the region.

The Petro Declaration came a day after the Brazilian government was condemned as “insulting” to use handcuffs on its citizens on a deportation trip from the United States.

After the plane stopped on Friday due to technical problems, Brasilia said it prevented the flight from continuing to the destination of Belo Horizon because of the handcuffs, the “bad condition” of the plane and “anger” of 88 Brazilian citizens about their “uncomfortable treatment.”

The Minister of Justice in Brazil said that there was “a blatant lack of respect for the basic rights of Brazilian citizens,” and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs pledged to ask US officials.

For Brazil, a country with a long history of slavery, the use of handcuffs to kill its citizens is especially sensitive.

Although Colombia and the United States were allies close to a long time – as Washington provided about 10 billion dollars of military and external aid to Bogota as part of its plan, which Colombia aims to fight rebels and drug dealers between 1999 and 2016 – Trump opposes and ideologically.

In 2020, Trump referred to Petro, the previously valid guerrilla war, as a “major loser”. Petro spoke strongly against the US -led war on drugs, and cocaine production in Colombia increased under his presidency.

In another publication on X on Sunday, Petro called for “an extraordinary meeting of Latin American presidents to study the problems of immigration and new training for the drug market in America.”

“It is important for Petro and many Latin American leaders to show resistance to this policy on immigration,” said Sergio Joseman, director of risk analysis in Colombia, a Bogota -based advisory company. “Petro tries to show strength and showcase ideological difference with Trump.”

The influx of migrants north decreased through Dari Gab, an extension of the forest of the forest separating Colombia and Panama last year, as well as the number of illegal crossings in the United States.

Last year, 302,000 immigrants expressed the Dari gap, a decrease of more than 40 percent in 2023, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Panama, after a campaign by the Panamanian authorities on the road controlled by criminal smuggling groups.

The Venezuelan, who flee from oppression and economic collapse, formed the largest part of the crossings, with approximately 210,000 immigrants, followed by 17,500 Colombians.

But many immigrants used the legal paths opened by the Biden administration to cross to the United States, and the total number of migrants is still near modern record levels.

Mexico is negotiating with the United States because of migration and drugs to try to avoid a 25 percent tariff on its exports to the United States next week.

On Friday, the Foreign Ministry of Mexico said it would always welcome the Mexicans with open weapons, after NBC News reported that it refused to restore a military flight from immigrants.

Mexican President Claudia Shinbom She confirmed that although it does not agree with the deportation, Mexico will cooperate with the United States and have a “good” relationship with the Trump administration.

Tom Human, the Tsar border Trump, told ABC News on Sunday that if the host countries refuse to receive migrants, “then we will put in a third safe country.”

the US Interior Ministry Customs and Border Protection Agency did not respond to the request for deportation trips.