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Colombia blocks deportation flights, Trump responds with tariffs
Reuters ^ | January 26, 2025 | Phil Stewart

Posted on 01/26/2025 11:18:44 AM PST by Republicans 2016 2020

WASHINGTON/BOGOTA Jan 26 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he would impose retaliatory measures on Colombia including tariffs, sanctions and travel bans after the South American country turned away two U.S. military aircraft with migrants being deported as part of Trump's immigration crackdown. Trump said the action by Colombian President Gustavo Petro jeopardized U.S. national security and he has directed his administration to take retaliatory measures.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; colombia; columbia; deportation; despot; gustavopetro; lindayepes; trumpmas
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1 posted on 01/26/2025 11:18:44 AM PST by Republicans 2016 2020
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To: Republicans 2016 2020
GO GET'EM TRUMP!!!!
2 posted on 01/26/2025 11:21:29 AM 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: Republicans 2016 2020

They’re not migrants.

It’s not immigration.

You stupid mother....lovers....must think harris won because you’re still using bull....crud words that are wrong.

Sometimes it’s really hard for me to get through a post about msm without cursing like a sailor!

But I’ve gotten much better as I’ve aged :)


3 posted on 01/26/2025 11:21:38 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: Republicans 2016 2020

Good. They need to take their criminals back! I’m sure they don’t want them, but that’s just too bad; they are their citizens. THEY can take care of them.


4 posted on 01/26/2025 11:21:43 AM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Republicans 2016 2020
 
 
Mess with the POTUS, you get the horns. An international FAFO moment if there ever was one.
 
 
 
 

5 posted on 01/26/2025 11:24:08 AM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Republicans 2016 2020

Looks like the largest category of exports from Columbia is crude and refined petroleum. About $6 billion a year. That’s no big deal.


6 posted on 01/26/2025 11:25:44 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "MURICA!")
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To: dp0622
They’re not migrants.

One of my most disliked words is "migrants".

Migrants suggests, like birds or other animals, that they migrate north and then return south

Today's "migrants" only go one direction and then become sedentary. Time for them to fly away home

7 posted on 01/26/2025 11:26:14 AM PST by llevrok (Keep buggering on!)
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To: dp0622

Build a big prison complex down there similar to El Salvador’s. Put it where 3 countries meet and divide jurisdiction on a rotating basis. Other tri-state areas will follow.

Jungle sites can be cleared with a MOAB.


8 posted on 01/26/2025 11:26:20 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Republicans 2016 2020

“They include imposing emergency 25% tariffs on all goods coming into the United States, which will go up to 50% in one week; a travel ban and visa revocations on Colombian government officials and its allies; fully imposing emergency Treasury, banking and financial sanctions and enhanced border inspections of Colombian nationals. “These measures are just the beginning,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.”

Sounds like Trump’s team TOTALLY EXPECTED this behavior by some of the receiving countries. Good luck Colombia, YOU WILL NEED IT!!!


9 posted on 01/26/2025 11:27:27 AM PST by BobL
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To: llevrok

They are foreigners. And they are felons. I refer to the as foreign felons.


10 posted on 01/26/2025 11:29:27 AM PST by madrastex
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To: Republicans 2016 2020

Are these criminals that were released and directed to come here?
Or are they criminals who fled to avoid arrest?
In any case I am fine with Columbia just executing them on arrival.
Yah, I said it, and I do mean it.


11 posted on 01/26/2025 11:30:03 AM PST by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV group-think!)
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To: Republicans 2016 2020

You don’t need to land...if you wanna be nice, give them parachutes. But you don’t need to land.


12 posted on 01/26/2025 11:31:13 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: Republicans 2016 2020

Trump can easily solve this problem with our military ships dumping the criminal illegals on their beaches and let them walk all the way home. Problem solved. This is what they’ve been doing for four effing years in California in Florida all over our coastal beaches! It’s time to play dirty.


13 posted on 01/26/2025 11:31:14 AM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: Republicans 2016 2020

OK FREEPERS - Let’s see if we can come up with other ideas for Trump to deal with Colombia. I have 2 ideas, but will only post one, so others can chime-in:

Give a 7-day notice for ALL visa-holding Colombians in the US to leave, or else they’ll be declared as being in the country Illegally, which means, among other things, that they will have to wait 10 YEARS before they can be re-admitted.

My other one is pretty whacky, so I’ll hold off on it.


14 posted on 01/26/2025 11:31:21 AM PST by BobL
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To: madrastex
Foreign felons would be a distinct enough description if they stayed in their foreign country.

Since they came here illegally, they're invaders.

15 posted on 01/26/2025 11:31:44 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Republicans 2016 2020

How about LAPES?


16 posted on 01/26/2025 11:32:01 AM PST by Redleg Duke (“Time to Play Cowboys and Snowflakes!”)
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To: WKUHilltopper

Dump them on their beaches ! Simple solution.


17 posted on 01/26/2025 11:32:16 AM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: lapsus calami; bitt; Allegra; grey_whiskers

Alternative spelling of MAGA .... FAFO! 😂


18 posted on 01/26/2025 11:33:02 AM PST by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: Republicans 2016 2020

They are not immigrants they are illegal alien criminal scumbags period


19 posted on 01/26/2025 11:33:36 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: BobL

It’s nice the president is able to add the flourishes like pointing out he is an unpopular socialist. Way to go President Trump best president ever!


20 posted on 01/26/2025 11:33:50 AM PST by datricker (Go Trump/Vance!)
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