Colombia will send its presidential plane to Honduras to pick up Colombians after the country refused to accept migrant deportation flights from the United States, causing President Trump to enact tariffs and other retaliatory measures on Sunday.
President Gustavo Petro has arranged for the presidential plane to facilitate the “dignified return of Colombian nationals who were to arrive in the country today in the morning hours, coming in from deportation flights,” read a statement released on Sunday.
Earlier Sunday, President Trump slapped Colombia with 25 percent tariffs on all goods coming into the U.S., and a travel ban and immediate visa revocations on “Government Officials, and all Allies and Supporters,” among other measures, after the South American country rejected two planes carrying migrants.
Petro has previously said he will deny entry to the United States’s deportation flights as Trump’s immigration plan begins.
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Holy fuck why can this man pull off stunts so well?
So they’re still being put on planes, only now the flight is an hour shorter and they have to transfer through Honduras.
Seems like a symbolic victory but not a practical one.
What’s wrong with this is that Trump will see this as a victory for the power movement. Realistically, it was simply possible to agree on the method of transport (because that was Colombia’s problem). I do, however, fear an increase in support for the Colombian left after this.
!ping IMMIGRATION&FOREIGN-POLICY&LATAM
Colombia wins by doing nothing