Colombia has supplied to pay for the “dignified” deportation of its residents from the US, the overseas ministry mentioned Friday, per week after a public spat between presidents Gustavo Petro and Donald Trump over the removing of migrants.
The 2 leaders had issued threats and counter threats of main commerce tariffs of as much as 50 %, and Washington’s embassy in Bogota stopped issuing visas from Monday to Friday in retaliation for Petro’s refusal to permit US army planes to return Colombian migrants to their nation.
Petro had accused the US of treating the migrants like criminals, putting them in shackles and handcuffs.
Colombia’s overseas ministry mentioned Friday it had proposed to Mauricio Claver-Carone, Trump’s particular envoy for Latin America, that Bogota would “instantly assume the switch of all residents deported by the US,” masking transportation prices for its nationals, in accordance with an announcement.
Petro has mentioned his authorities wouldn’t enable expelled migrants to journey in handcuffs.
The Trump administration had introduced this week a sequence of sanctions towards Colombia, earlier than backtracking, with the White Home saying Bogota had accepted its situations and reversed course.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, Colombian army and civilian plane repatriated the primary teams of migrants to Bogota.
Based on Petro, a whole bunch of Colombians, together with a number of kids, have been returned to their nation in “dignified” situations. None of them have been “confirmed criminals,” he added.
Colombia is anticipating the return of round 27,000 migrants whose deportation orders have been signed within the final six months by the Trump administration or that of his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden, a Colombian presidential supply instructed AFP.
Trump has pledged to hold out the most important deportation marketing campaign in US historical past, vowing to expel tens of millions of undocumented immigrants, many from Latin American nations.
The US is Colombia’s largest commerce companion and it has offered tens of millions of {dollars} in help over a long time to battle drug trafficking and terrorism.
AFP
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