A week after his arrival at the White House, Donald Trumpwith the aim of continuing to advance firmly in its measures against the migration, advertisement Hard sanctions against Colombia for rejecting two military planes with deported people.
The brand new president said that the refusal of Gustavo Petrohis Colombian couple, endangered the National Security of the United States and therefore decided to impose sanctions that will imply tariffs, prohibition of travel and revocation of visas to Colombian officials. Petro’s rapid actions can have as its objective a deterrent effect for other countries that face a similar scenario.
The measures that Trump will take against Colombia include the imposition of 25% emergency tariffs on all goods that enter the United States, which will increase by 50% in a week; Travel prohibition and revocation of visas to officials of the Colombian government and their allies and the Total imposition of emergency sanctions on the Treasurybanking and finance. He also said that he will order greater border inspections of national and Colombian cargoes.
“These measures are only the beginning,” Trump wrote in his social social network. “We will not allow the Colombian government to violate its legal obligations as regards the acceptance and return of criminals that forced to enter the United States! “
Trump advances firm on his anti-migration agenda
As soon as he arrived at the government on Monday, the president declared illegal immigration a National emergency and imposed a broad offensive: he ordered the US army Help with border securityissued a broad prohibition of asylum and took measures to restrict citizens to children born in the country.
Petro condemned the mass deportation that the Republican is proposing and pointed out that he was treating migrants as criminals. In an X post, Petro said that Colombia would not receive deported migrants in civil planes and that should be treated with dignity and respect.
“The United States cannot treat Colombian immigrants as criminals,” Petro wrote, noting that There were 15,660 Americans without adequate immigration status in Colombia.
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The US cannot treat Colombian migrants as criminals.
Unauthorized the entry of American airplanes with Colombian migrants to our territory.
The US must establish a decent treatment protocol for migrants before we receive them.
– Gustavo Petro (@Petrogustavo) January 26, 2025
Colombia is the second country that rejects flights with deported migrants. Mexico had already made the same decision, although at the moment no reprisals were announced against him, although Trump said he was thinking of Impose 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico on February 1 for the illegal immigrants and the Fentanyl that cross the United States.
The United States is the largest commercial and investment partner in Colombia, says the State Department, and Colombia is also the third most important commercial partner in the United States in Latin America.
Source: Ambito

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