Trump vows to impose tough US sanctions, tariffs on Colombia after it turns deportation planes
US President Donald Trump on Sunday announced retaliatory measures against Colombia, including tariffs, sanctions, sanctions and travel bans, after the South American country deported two US military planes carrying migrants.
Trump said that Colombian President Gustavo Petro's action threatened US national security, and he directed his leadership to take retaliatory actions.
These include the imposition of emergency tariffs of 25 percent on all goods entering the United States, which will go up to 50 percent within a week. fully imposing an emergency treasury, banking and financial sanctions and border checks on Colombian citizens.
“These measures are just the beginning,” Trump wrote on the social media site Social.
Colombia's refusal to accept the flights is the second time a Latin American nation has rejected US military evacuation flights.
Petro condemned the practice, suggesting it treats criminals like criminals.In a post on the social media platform, Petro said Colombia welcomes displaced migrants on civilian planes, saying they should be treated with dignity and respect.
“The US cannot criminalize Colombian migrants,” he wrote, noting that there are 15,660 Americans in Colombia.
“Erosive Treatment”
Colombia's decision follows one by Mexico, which also refused a request last week to leave a US warplane with migrants on the ground.
Brazil's foreign ministry on Saturday condemned the “humiliating treatment” of Brazilians after migrants were handcuffed on a commercial deportation flight, with some passengers also reporting mistreatment during the flight, local news reports said.
The plane, which was carrying 88 Brazilian passengers, 16 US security agents and eight crew members, was originally scheduled to arrive in the city of Belo Horizonte, in southeastern Minas Gerais.
Brazilian officials there ordered the handcuffs removed, and President Luiz Inan Lula De Silva ordered a Brazilian air force flight to end their journey on Saturday.
New security footage of ice agents arrested at a local facility in Newark, N.Y., is a clear indication that U.S. President Donald Trump's long-standing deportment is spreading.
The commercial charter flight was the second from the US to Brazil this year and the first of undocumented immigrants deported since Trump's inauguration.
Officials at the US State Department, the Pentagon, US Homeland Security and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The use of US military aircraft to conduct deportation flights is part of the Pentagon's response to Trump's immigration memo released on Monday.
In the past, US military aircraft have been used to move from one country to another, such as during the 2021 US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
On Friday, US military aircraft carried out two similar flights, one each to Guatemala.
