Trump orders sanctions on Colombia after Petro blocks deportation flights
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President Petro says Bogota will block US deportation flights until migrants are guaranteed ‘dignified treatment’.
US President Donald Trump has promised to impose tariffs and visa restrictions on Colombia after Bogota turned away two US military aircraft transporting migrants being deported under Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Washington will slap Colombia with 25 percent “emergency tariffs” on all goods coming into the US, which would then be raised to 50 percent in a week, Trump wrote on Truth Social, the social media platform that he owns on Sunday.
He added that his administration will impose a “travel ban and immediate visa revocations” and “visa sanctions” on government officials, as well as their family members and supporters.
The threat comes after Colombian President Gustavo Petro said his government would not accept flights carrying migrants deported from the United States until its administration creates a protocol that treats them with “dignity”.
Petro made the announcement in two X posts, one of which included a news video of migrants reportedly deported to Brazil walking on a tarmac with their hands and feet restrained.
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