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Trump announces immediate retaliation against Colombia after socialist president turns back US deportation flights
nypost.com ^ | Published Jan. 26, 2025, 1:49 p.m. ET | By Steve Janoski

Posted on 01/26/2025 12:20:40 PM PST by airdalechief

President Trump fumed on Sunday after Colombia turned back two US military flights carrying deported migrants — vowing to impose sanctions and an “emergency 25% tariff” on the South American country.

“I was just informed that two repatriation flights from the United States, with a large number of Illegal Criminals, were not allowed to land in Colombia,” Trump wrote Sunday.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: aliens; colombia; deport; despot; gustavopetro; lindayepes; trump
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To: Starboard

Trump should not cancel any of his threats until Colombia actually takes the illegals back..says a lot that they dont want back their own citizens but want us to be stuck with them


21 posted on 01/26/2025 12:59:59 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Agree 100%.

BTW for those who don’t read Spanish, in the first two paragraphs of his letter Petro is trying to expand the repatriation matter into a regional problem for Trump by dragging in the CELAC. So there’s even more to this than some are seeing.


22 posted on 01/26/2025 1:08:55 PM PST by Starboard
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To: SaxxonWoods

At least handcuffed to an USAF pallet, speeds up disembarkation.


23 posted on 01/26/2025 1:11:40 PM PST by xone ( )
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To: airdalechief

Transport planes are good enough for our soldiers.

They’re good enough for gangsters and drug runners.


24 posted on 01/26/2025 1:45:26 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: SauronOfMordor

He blinked first.

LOTS of winning.


25 posted on 01/26/2025 1:46:34 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: SauronOfMordor

And he’s likely to find out why we didn’t want to sacrifice our commercial airliners to their criminal element.


26 posted on 01/26/2025 1:47:33 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: TBP
Give Trump another 24 hours and Columbia will be sending their own charter planes to pick up all these "citizens" and every other one we arrest !

I would bet money on it !

27 posted on 01/26/2025 1:48:14 PM PST by Newbomb Turk
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To: airdalechief

Imagine that. They don’t want their criminals back. What a surprise.


28 posted on 01/26/2025 1:49:56 PM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Starboard

Colombia caves to Trump’s tariff threat as humiliated socialist leader offers his own plane to migrants

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14327629/Colombia-caves-Trumps-tariff-threat-offers-plane-migrants.html


29 posted on 01/26/2025 1:58:11 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Jim W N

He “offered” his plane so are we going to have to rely on the willingness and timing of Petro to remove illegal criminals from our country? If we do he will just make excuses for the plane not being available for one reason or another.

He’s playing games. Read his letter; he commits to nothing in particular or specific. He’s dragging his feet and trying to drag CELAC into the deportation issue to make it a regional problem for Trump.

Petro is a Marxist. Believe nothing he says.


30 posted on 01/26/2025 2:05:21 PM PST by Starboard
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To: metmom

No commercial airline wants to transport criminals.


31 posted on 01/26/2025 2:42:30 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: airdalechief

The pipeline to removing these criminals needs to flow smoothly. If it clogs we have to house them somewhere until they are removed. If it backs up long enough we have to start letting some of them go because there is no more jail space for them.


32 posted on 01/26/2025 2:48:55 PM PST by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: Starboard

“El presidente’s letter was disingenuous. But he can be turned around with painful tariffs and other forms of retaliation.”

Musk can always buy Spirit Airlines and use those planes to repatriate illegals back to their home countries.


33 posted on 01/26/2025 2:52:19 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (If you do not have a Biden Golden Ticket, you are so screwed!)
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To: airdalechief

If only Trump had a shuttle to repatriate illegals.


34 posted on 01/26/2025 2:53:00 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (If you do not have a Biden Golden Ticket, you are so screwed!)
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To: Newbomb Turk

I think that’s already agreed to.


35 posted on 01/26/2025 2:54:56 PM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral creulty of the Biden-Harris regime.)
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To: Newbomb Turk

Winning!


36 posted on 01/26/2025 2:55:08 PM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral creulty of the Biden-Harris regime.)
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To: SauronOfMordor

Small wonder.

The vandalism would cost untold thousands of dollars.


37 posted on 01/26/2025 3:40:59 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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