Trump orders tariffs, visa restrictions on Colombia over rejection of deportation flights

BOGOTA, Colombia -- U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that helium was ordering tariffs, visa restrictions and different retaliatory measures to beryllium taken against Colombia aft its authorities rejected 2 flights carrying migrants.

Trump made the announcement connected his societal media level Truth Social. He said that the determination of Colombian President Gustavo Petro "jeopardized" nationalist information successful the U.S.

"These measures are conscionable the beginning," Trump wrote. "We volition not let the Colombian Government to interruption its ineligible obligations with respect to the acceptance and instrumentality of the Criminals they forced into the United States."

Earlier Sunday, Petro announced that his authorities won't judge flights carrying migrants deported from the U.S. until the Trump medication creates a protocol that treats them with "dignity."

Petro made the announcement successful 2 X posts, 1 of which included a quality video of migrants reportedly deported to Brazil walking connected a tarmac with their hands and feet restrained.

"A migrant is not a transgression and indispensable beryllium treated with the dignity that a quality being deserves," Petro said. "That is wherefore I returned the U.S. subject planes that were carrying Colombian migrants."

The U.S. authorities didn't instantly respond to a petition for remark from The Associated Press regarding craft and protocols utilized successful deportations to Colombia.

Petro added that his state would person Colombians successful "civilian airplanes" and "without attraction similar criminals."

As portion of a flurry of actions to marque bully connected U.S. President Donald Trump's run promises to ace down connected amerciable immigration, his authorities is utilizing active-duty subject to assistance unafraid the borderline and transportation retired deportations.

Two Air Force C-17 cargo planes carrying migrants removed from the U.S. touched down aboriginal Friday successful Guatemala. That aforesaid day, Honduras received 2 deportation flights carrying a full of 193 people.