This weekend, Colombia denied landing to two U.S. military planes carrying deportees with criminal records from the United States. This pissed off President Trump and he issued this threat of severe tariffs, travel bans and strict border inspections.
The Colombian President Gustavo Petro talked tough on X but the White House says that they agreed to take back their migrants and may have even offered their own planes but Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that he “authorized flights and provided all needed authorizations and then canceled his authorization when the planes were in the air.”
President Petro says that his problem is how they arrive, “handcuffed and on military aircraft.” So how would he like them? These are people who are accused of crimes. Might I suggest that he watch 1993 version of The Fugitive?
President Petro says that Colombia has tried to stop the migration of its people to the U.S. but blamed the blockade of Venezuela for the migrant crisis. Mexico has accepted at least four flights of migrants. The President of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, said thatif there is “unnecessary reprisals against our migrants, we would have to reconsider a change in our military cooperation policies with the USA — for decades they’ve maintained military bases on our soil without paying a cent.”
All in favor of pulling troops out of Honduras?
