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Colombia to accept repatriated citizens after Trump sanctions threat

Colombia to accept repatriated citizens after Trump sanctions threat

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In response to the tariff threat, Colombia agreed to allow military aircraft carrying deported migrants. The US, in turn, agreed not to impose the threatened penalties. The Colombian Foreign Ministry released a statement with a more measured and diplomatic tone, indicating that the country had "overcome the impasse" in the US migrant row.

Donald Trump
Republican Party
1. This order was given by Colombia's Socialist President Gustavo Petro, who is already very unpopular amongst his people.
2. The Government of Colombia has agreed to all of President Trump's terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens from Colombia returned from the United States, including on U.S. military aircraft, without limitation or delay.
3. You've got to understand, these are murderers, drug lords, gang members, just the toughest people you've ever met or seen.
4. We were being scolded because we had them in shackles in an airplane and he [Petro] said, 'this is no way to treat people,'
Marco Rubio
Republican Party
1. President Trump has made it clear that under his administration, America will no longer be lied to nor taken advantage of.
Mike Johnson
Republican Party
1. Colombia and all nations should be on notice.
2. President Trump is putting America first, just like he said he would. And Congress will implement policies that reinforce his agenda.
Gustavo Petro
United Socialist Party
1. I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed.
2. He can, with his economic power and arrogance, try to stage a coup against me, as they did with Allende. But I stand firm in my beliefs. I survived torture, and I'll withstand him.
3. I will never allow Colombians to be brought in handcuffs on flights. Marco, if officials from the Foreign Ministry allowed this, it would never be under my direction.
Luis Gilberto Murillo
Colombian Air Force
1. We will continue receiving Colombians who return as deportees.
Juan Manuel Santos
1. On both sides, they made mistakes. They insulted each other, and they took decisions that should not have been taken.
2. Fortunately, they ended up doing the right thing, which they should have done from the beginning – sit down and talk.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic Party
1. Trump is all about making inflation worse for working-class Americans, not better.
Daniel Oquendo
1. Trump needs to look more inward before looking outward.
2. The CBP, they mostly spoke Spanish, they handcuffed us and pushed around as if we were in jail. I understand the military has some procedures, but there were children, families.
3. If he had received us on Sunday, we would have saved ourselves two more days in jail. I feel used. He does it to look like a savior, and that's fine, but he should do it with the next ones [before they're in flight].
4. You can look at my history — I've never been involved in drug trafficking. He judges others and generalizes. It's as if we said all Americans are murderers because there are shootings there all the time.