Part of his deportation acrtion is to export migrants FROM the US to other countries…
Colombia is/was onr of them….
NOT right now…
That country told TWO US Military plane’s with exported migrant’s , they could NOT land….
Donald Trump IS INCESSED!
So?
He’s first response is to level US tariff’s on Columbia of 25%!
Prersident’s HAVE the ability to level tariff’s…
But?
Congress has set conditions , if it wants to act against a President…
Trump says this is about US National Security….
See below for Update…and Another Update on Columbia dropping a 25% import tax on American Goods…
President Donald Trump said Sunday he is slapping an emergency 25 percent tariff on all goods imported from Colombia after the country’s president turned away two U.S. military aircraft full of detained Colombian migrants.
Sunday’s action could be the first legal test of Trump’s threat to impose sweeping tariffs on trading partners, which he likely has power to do under emergency authorities. He did not specify the legal basis for the tariffs.
The punitive duties, which Trump announced in a social media post, would increase to 50 percent in a week as the U.S. president ignites another fight with a foreign leader over his tariff and immigration policies.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s “denial of these flights has jeopardized the National Security and Public Safety of the United States, so I have directed my Administration to immediately take the following and decisive retaliatory measures,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social, outlining his threats.
Petro later appeared to back down, posting in a statement that he has arranged the presidential plane to “facilitate the dignified return of the nationals who were to arrive today in the morning.”
“This measure responds to the government’s commitment to guarantee dignified conditions. In no way Colombians, as patriots and subjects of rights, have been and will not be banished from Colombian territory,” he said in the statement.
The dynamic speaks to one of the major challenges Trump will face in implementing his sweeping immigration agenda, as he works to increase the number of deportations. This has long been a challenge for the U.S., as some home countries of many migrants — particularly those convicted of violent crimes — don’t always want them back, meaning they stay indefinitely in jails or U.S. detention centers. In Colombia’s case, Petro had said they would not accept these deportation flights until the Trump administration facilitated a process to treat Colombian migrants with “dignity and respect.”…
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The denial of the two flights comes as the Pentagon is sending troops to the southern U.S. border and readies transport planes to begin flying over 5,000 detained migrants to their home countries…
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Last week, two flights landed in Guatemala without incident, but one slated to fly to Mexico was similarly denied permits to land.
The tariffs represent a dramatic shift in the relationship between the U.S. and Colombia, which have a free trade agreement that removes duties on the majority of goods. As of 2022, more than a quarter of the Latin American country’s exports went to the U.S., according to World Bank data.
Trump’s move could trigger legal challenges under the trade deal, although the agreement gives both governments leeway to take action if they deem it necessary to protect “essential security.”
UPDATE…
Columbia President says he’ll accept migrants from US only if they are allowed to use HIS offical President plane…
Backing up….
Colombian president Gustavo Petro reportedly offered the use of his presidential plane to help repatriate deportees from the U.S. on Sunday, shortly after President Donald Trump threatened the country with retaliatory tariffs for having turned away two U.S. military aircraft carrying the deportees earlier in the day, according to CNN….
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Colombian and U.S. leaders are reportedly still in talks about the flight…
One Trump administration official told CNN that the U.S. was caught by surprise when Colombia would not allow the flight to enter its territory as Colombian authorities had approved the two flights prior to takeoff, according to documents reviewed by the outlet.
Update…
“The possibility of a trade war erupted on Sunday between the United States and Colombia that could make coffee, flowers and raw materials more expensive for Americans, while U.S. corn growers and chemical companies could find billions of dollars in sales at risk,” the New York Times reports.
“Relations between the two countries quickly deteriorated after the South American country refused to receive U.S. military planes carrying deported immigrants.”
“In response, President Trump said on social media that he would immediately impose a 25 percent tariff on all Colombian imports and escalate the tariffs to 50 percent in a week. Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, threatened his own 50 percent tariff hours later.”
Axios: Trump’s Colombia tariffs threaten surge in coffee prices.
Update…
Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Sunday ordered an increase of import tariffs on goods from the United States in retaliation to President Trump’s tariffs and sanctions.
Petro, in a post on the social platform X, said he ordered the “foreign trade minister to raise import tariffs from the U.S. by 25%.”…
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