The White House claimed victory in a showdown with Colombia over accepting flights of deported migrants from the U.S. on Sunday, hours after President Donald Trump threatened steep tariffs on imports and other sanctions on the longtime U.
After a day of drama, President Donald Trump paused steep retaliatory tariffs that he had threatened against Colombia after the South American nation agreed to accept military deportation flights from the U.
The U.S. will not impose sanctions and tariffs on Colombia after the South American nation agreed to accept deported migrants from the United States, the White House press secretary said in a statement late on Sunday.
President Donald Trump on Sunday announced retaliatory tariffs on Colombia after its president blocked US military deportation flights from landing, the first instance of Trump using economic pressure to force other nations to fall in line with his mass deportation plans since he took office last week.
Trump’s announcement on social media Sunday came after Colombian President Gustavo Petro refused deportation flights, citing concerns over migrant treatment and national security.
President Donald Trump has imposed tariffs and a travel ban on Colombia after that country's president refused to allow 160 deportees to land in that country Sunday as part of U.S. high profile deportation efforts.
The two world leaders are at odds with each other after Colombia turned away two U.S. military aircraft carrying migrants who are being deported.
Gustavo Petro said the United States should not treat Colombian migrants as criminals and that he had already turned away U.S. military flights carrying deportees.
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At least 80 people are dead and more than 18,000 have been forced to flee their homes in Colombia, officials say, amid fierce clashes between two rival armed groups on the border with Venezuela.
We are following with concern acts of violence that started in Colombia's Catatumbo region, and spread to various parts of country,' says Foreign Ministry - Anadolu Ajansı