Colombian President Gustavo Petro welcomes ‘free and dignified’ deported, emphasizing that migrants are not criminals.
The first flights that carried migrants deported from the United States to Colombia after Major diplomatic order They arrived in the capital of Bogot.
The Colombian government confirmed on Tuesday that two aircraft landed that had transported migrants. Total 201 migrants – 110 sent from California and 90 from Texas – was on board.
Flights mark abruptly around the face for Colombia, which rejected US military planes that wore migrants over the weekend, claiming that their passengers should not be treated as criminals.
Some flights for Latin America were reportedly wore fox migrants.
“The benefit of our fellow citizens and the guarantee of their rights is the priority of the Colombian government,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Colombia said in a post on social media on Tuesday.
Pljes started on Sunday when Colombian President Gustavo Petro refused to approve two flights to deport to land in the country, angry with his colleague, US president Donald Trump.
Trump’s administration responded to suspending the issue of Visa at the Washington Embassy in Bogota and imposing a ban on traveling to officials “who were responsible for interfering” in flights of deportations.
Trump, who shot at migration Main priority Ever since he returned to the White House for a second term on January 20, he has also threatened to impose 25 percent of Tariff in Colombian Rob. He said that number would increase to 50 percent of the week if Colombia persists in his attitude.
Bogota initially hit a defiant tone, saying that he would impose his own Tariff USA.
But two sides reached an agreement to resolve the issue late Sunday, which US officials called as a win.
Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo said this week that his country would continue to accept the acceptance of deported in “dignified conditions” and use the presidential plane to help restore migrants.
Bogota allowed Washington to send deported Colombian citizens to his home country under previous US administrations. But Petro’s government opposed to transporting deports under Trump.
The left -wing Colombian president said on Sunday that his country had never refused to accept migrants.
“But don’t demand that I accept the deportation from USA, foxes and military aircraft,” Petro wrote in a post on social media. “We’re not anyone’s colony.”
On Tuesday, he shared photos of one of the deportation flights – Colombian airline forces – which landed in Colombia.
“They are Colombians. They are free and dignified, and they are in their homeland where they are loved,” Petro wrote.
“A migrant is not a criminal. He is a human being who wants to work and progress, live life.”
