Washington – A dead end between the United States and Colombia about Colombia's refusal to accept deportation flights ended on Monday after each side threatened tariffs on the other side and then withdrew in the negotiations.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro In the early Sunday, two US military flights with deportants have returned as part of President Trump's plan to drive away millions of migrants. Petro said he would receive deportees, but only under “dignified conditions”.
In response, Trump said that he ordered a 25% tariff to all Colombian exports to the United States, which would increase to 50% in a week if no flights were resumed. Trump also threatened a number of visa restrictions and other financial punishments.
Petro replied and said that he too would hit us on we imports and add Trump: “Your blockade doesn't startle me.”
The two sides rushed into late night negotiations. In the late Sunday they agreed to a number of conditions and said the flights would resume. The White House said Petro accepted all the terms from Trump. Colombia said it received assurances of the “worthy conditions” required by Petro.
“Today's events make it clear to the world that America is respected again,” said the White House in an explanation.
The Flareup seemed unnecessary for many observers. Colombia has long been one of the most loyal allies of the United States in Latin America and has also received hundreds of deportation flights in recent years.
For Petro, one left, the red line seemed to have been the sudden use of military flights to carry out the trigger. And he declined that Colombian citizens were treated “how criminals”. It was unclear whether the agreement made would usually return to the use of civil aircraft in the form of chartas.
For Trump, the episode gave him the opportunity to show the rest of Latin America the risks they are exposed if they do not match his deportation plan. Deportation flights were also driven to Mexico and Guatemala.
Numerous countries in Latin America try to find out how to deal with Trump's weekly administration, promise cooperation on some immigration issues, but also seek fair treatment and respect for their own national sovereignty.
“Colombia becomes a test area for the approach of the threat in Latin America,” said Will Freeman, an expert in Colombia at the Council on Foreign Relations, on Sunday on the X platform.
Trump's threats included the revocation of the US visa of Colombian officials and the denial of the Visa for tens of thousands of other Colombians. The US message in Bogota said that it had exposed all Visa emissions.
The resistance to Trump's immigration training dries up slowly when the lawyers and the courts capture the exact type of plans of the administration. He threatened to rule out several million people, including some who are legally but temporarily in the United States.
The US immigration and customs authority announced on Sunday that they have launched raids in Chicago in order to maintain “public security and national security” by rounding immigrants.
ICE has teamed up with the FBI, the US marshal service and several other federal authorities. Raids were also reported in other cities.
The first challenge for Trump's immigration plan came quickly when a federal judge blocked the government's attempt to refuse the automatic US citizenship born in the USA. The automatic or born citizenship is anchored in the US constitution. The judge, a Reagan representative based in Seattle, gave a stay to block Trump's plan.