US President on Sunday said Sunday he was ordering punitive tariffs and travel bans on Colombia, among other retaliatory steps.
The move was triggered by Colombia refusing landing permission for at least two US deportation flights.
“These measures are just the beginning,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “We will not allow the Colombian Government to violate its legal obligations with regard to the acceptance and return of the Criminals they forced into the United States.”
Colombian president says migrants need to be treated with ‘dignity’
Earlier on Sunday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro said that flights carrying migrants deported from the US would not be accepted until the Trump administration established protocols that treated people with “dignity.”
“A migrant is not a criminal and must be treated with the dignity that a human being deserves,” Petro said. “That is why I returned theUS military planes that were carrying Colombian migrants.”
Petro added that his country would receive Colombians in “civilian airplanes” and “without treatment like criminals.”
Among a raft of Trump’s campaign promises was to crack down on those entering the US illegally.
Two Air Force C-17 cargo planes carrying migrants removed from the US touched down early on Friday in Guatemala.
On the same day, Honduras received two deportation flights carrying a total of 193 people.
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kb/dj (dpa, AFP, Reuters)
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