Trump Says Colombia Will Accept Deportees, Ending Tariff Standoff

WSJ ^ | Alyssa Lukpat, Juan Forero, Gavin Bade and Sadie Gurman

[MV=PY]

President Trump on Sunday night backed off a threat he had made earlier in the day to impose 25% tariffs and economic sanctions on Colombia, which the White House said had met its demands to repatriate migrants into the South American country.

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The U.S. had been deporting migrants to Colombia and other Latin American countries under the Biden administration, usually using commercial flights, the senior State Department official said. So far in January, there have been 90 deportation flights, with 48 to Guatemala and Honduras, 14 to Mexico and eight to Colombia, said Witness at the Border, a U.S. immigration advocacy group that tracks flight data.

[MV=PY]

With all the news about Trump's deportation of migrants, I didn't know that Biden had been deporting any. Apparently, this was an ongoing process that Trump is ramping up. (This post may be behind a wall, apologies.)

[V_TWIN]

They meant IMPORTING

[Robert A Cook PE]

So. This “Witness at the the Border” NGO border flight surveillance charity has NOTHING AT ALL TO REPORT up until Jan 21 when Trump began deporting illegal aliens?

Who reports on the 200,000 flown into the United States on government money by the Obama-Biden-Harris administration’s planes?

[bert]

Again I say.....

Teddy Roosevelt admonished “Speak softly but carry a big stick”

Donald Trump “Speaks loudly wand waves a huge tariff”.

[Gay State Conservative]

Don't know if this is true...but I've read that it's common for wetbacks to destroy their passports and other identity papers and somehow scrape off their fingerprints. When they do that it's difficult,if not impossible,to establish identity or nationality. And if you can't establish nationality you can't deport them.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

WSJ verbiage -- "to repatriate migrants...."

Correct verbiage -- to deport migrants who entered the United States illegally, and with the active assistance of the Democrats.

Time to investigate which agencies and individuals ran the "flights" all around the US, and which individuals at which agencies allowed such travel WITHOUT proper documents that even American citizens are required to have for airline travel.

[chuckee]

I prefer every nation follow the gay Marxist Columbian President’s lead and fly their own people back in their own nation’s aircraft and save us the expense. We’ll give them an extra bag of peanuts as dignity swag for their flight home

[No Party Affiliation]

If they have no identity papers and no fingerprints then doesn’t this make them prime candidates for deportation? If they cannot prove that they are US citizens then why are they afforded rights granted under the US Constitution?

[Savage Beast]

"Colombian President Gustavo Petro has accused Donald Trump of being a 'white slaveholder' who is on track to 'wipe out the human species' after being humiliated by the US president in a dispute over migrants."
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14328409/colombia-gustavo-petro-donald-trump-statement-tariffs-migrants.html

Wow!

And we thought the Democrats had retired the trophy for outlandish hysterical hyperbole!

[Gay State Conservative]

Yes...but the problem is if you don't know his/her nationality where do you deport them to? Mexico can say “he's not Mexican”...Guatemala can say “he's not Guatemalan”...etc.

[grobdriver]

Colombia cried "uncle" - but "Trump backed off".

Still hating the MSM.

[Savage Beast]

"And if you can't establish nationality you can't deport them."

If true, somebody needs to tell Trump.

He can make a deal with somebody who needs a labor force--Central African Republic? How about the Saudis?

[BlackbirdSST]

He can make a deal with somebody who needs a labor force--Central African Republic? How about the Saudis?

The Ukraine needs bodies. If your country doesn't want you back then its off to the Russian Front!

[Salman]

First little test -- PASSED.

There will be more.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Donald Trump ‘Speaks loudly wand waves a huge tariff’.”

And he manages an international crisis between holes during one golf game.

[MayflowerMadam]

“If they have no identity papers and no fingerprints then doesn’t this make them prime candidates for deportation?”

Right. As another has posted, send them all across the border and let Mexico sort them out.

Or, give them sixth grade English and American History tests using 1970s tests.

[Starboard]

It doesn’t matter what Columbia says. Let’s see what they do and when they do it.

[UnwashedPeasant]

”Trump Says Colombia Will Accept Deportees”

At first, I thought this headline meant Columbia University.

[nopardons]

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