Colombia Agrees to Take Illegal Aliens After Trump Threatens Tariffs
“Based on this agreement, the fully drafted IEEPA tariffs and sanctions will be held in reserve, and not signed, unless Colombia fails to honor this agreement.”
The White House announced Colombia agreed to take back deported illegal aliens after a Sunday showdown between President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro.
The statement said:
“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. Based on this agreement, the fully drafted IEEPA tariffs and sanctions will be held in reserve, and not signed, unless Colombia fails to honor this agreement. The visa sanctions issued by the State Department, and enhanced inspections from Customs and Border Protection, will remain in effect until the first planeload of Colombian deportees is successfully returned. Today’s events make clear to the world that America is respected again. President Trump will continue to fiercely protect our nation’s sovereignty, and he expects all other nations of the world to fully cooperate in accepting the deportation of their citizens illegally present in the United States.”
Under @POTUS ’s direction, we will continue carrying out our mission and actions on Colombia until they fully meet President Trump's terms. pic.twitter.com/z754OgHugl
— CBP (@CBP) January 27, 2025
Colombian Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo stated that he and Ambassador Daniel Garcia Peña will travel to D.C. to work on agreements.
“We will continue to welcome Colombians who return as deportees, guaranteeing them decent conditions as citizens with rights,” added Murillo.
Murillo said Perez “has the presidential plane ready to facilitate the return of the compatriots.”
The Colombian Foreign Ministry confirms that a deal has been reached between the United States and Colombia, regarding the deportation of illegal migrants from the U.S. back to Colombia. Colombia’s Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo and Ambassador Daniel García-Peña will… pic.twitter.com/LBc20rOSM3
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) January 27, 2025
The war of words started on Sunday when Colombia refused to accept two planes with illegal aliens.
Trump threatened a 25% tariff on Colombian imports, among other steps:
-Emergency 25% tariffs on all goods coming into the United States. In one week, the 25% tariffs will be raised to 50%.
-A Travel Ban and immediate Visa Revocations on the Colombian Government Officials, and all Allies and Supporters.
-Visa Sanctions on all Party Members, Family Members, and Supporters of the Colombian Government.-Enhanced Customs and Border Protection Inspections of all Colombian Nationals and Cargo on national security grounds.
-IEEPA Treasury, Banking and Financial Sanctions to be fully imposed.
Perez began his back down mid-afternoon, demanding the illegal aliens receive a “dignified” return.
When Trump didn’t answer, Perez threatened 25% tariffs on U.S. goods.
America is Colombia’s main trading partner, but the agreement is lopsided. The New York Times even admitted it. Granted, the publication buried it: “The United States is Colombia’s largest trading partner, but Colombian products make up a relatively minor share of U.S. imports.”
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President Petro (wiping face): Fighting Trump is pee-ing against the wind
Trump is getting to be a Bad Ass
Being abused will make strong willed people in bad asses. Someone should send Petro some personal lube, a bit of homorous putdown.
I think he would like it. I keep seeing stuff claiming that he’s cheating on his wife with a tr@nnie. It seems to be something well known in Colluumbia.
“Colluumbia”
You seem to delight in deliberately misspelling that country’s name. You might want to consider that (1) to any fence-sitter who comes here, you’re confirming the stereotype that conservatives enjoy being jerks; and (2) Republicans have only a very slim majority in the House, and Trump won only a modest victory over one of the worst candidates (Kamala) that the Dems could possibly have fielded. That’s reason for concern.
Many at LI are feeling giddy now, but your hubris may cost you two years from now — if not sooner.
As the saying goes monmuth, you ain’t that guy pal
Cheezus, Monmouth. You keep flogging that dolphin like it means something.
You sound just like JR did before Trump won the election: “ermagerd, you conservatard losers talking like this are going to lose Trump the Independent vote” or some such stupidity.
Chances are Primordial is just winding your clock for you, and you fall for it every single time.
What the hell do they need to come here for? DO it over video. After all, there’s not even much to do.
The idea that a country could EVER reject the entry of any of its own citizens is absolutely insane. There is absolutely no reasonable justification for that. They are THEIR citizens. They are the only country that their citizens have a “right” to be in and every one of their citizens can be rejected from anywhere else on Earth where those governments decide that they do not wish to be burdened with them.
On offering, any country MUST accept its own citizens. That is the whole foundation of the system of nations and sovereignty. If Columbia wishes to deny the idea of sovereign nations then that is fine, they will have willingly given up their own sovereignty (having denied the very basis of it) and have to be treated as such. Makes no difference to me.
Columbbia needs to be punished for having tried to take this insane position. Some temporary sanctions and tariffs must still be imposed to teach them that they do not get free swings at America. 5% for 6 months on their precious roses, say. A 10% reduction in visas awarded for 6 months.. Because they tried to screw us, and to do it over something that no one could ever justify. Their citizens can never be rejected by them. They have to deal with them. We do not.
Now that the guerilla war against the government is in full swing again they couldn’t wait to get the hell out of the country
“Columbbia”
Do realize some illegals from Columbbia could be reading this and get their feelings hurt?
With the recent war against FARC heating back up Colombia has far more to worry about than taking back it’s own citizens.
Send them back the way they came. If they came across the Mexican border, send back to Mexico and and let them start walking back home.
Colombia has an obligation to take them back. Mexico doesn’t.
Mexico can do what it did when all these illegals were traveling through their country to the U.S. southern border to cross illegally into the United States. Ignore them as they travel back to Colombia and the other countries they came from.
Mexico let them traverse the length of their country and allowed them through their own border with the US. They freely opened the door.
Yes, they bear significant responsibility and we are morally justified in pushing illegal aliens right back through that same porta, if necessary to remove them from our soil.
Like it or not, Mexico has no obligation to allow the arrival of Colombian deportees.
If they came here through Mexico then Mexico is certainly responsible for them. That’s how that whole “national sovereignty” thing works.
No legal obligation but perhaps a moral one considering the govt of Mexico allowed in in many cases facilitated or directly assisted entire ‘caravans’ to move north to the US border.
I would point out that the USA has no ‘legal’ obligation to allow any traffic, commercial or otherwise, from Mexico into the USA. Maybe it would help everyone understand the nuances if that traffic was closed entirely for a brief period, say a month. Then revisit the issue of Mexico offering at least the same level of support and assistance for these ‘migrants’ to travel Southward, reversing the course of their original journey.
To “CommoChief”,
If the Colombians traversed Mexican territory legally, then entered the US illegally, that’s not Mexico’s problem. If the Colombians entered the US legally, then committed criminal acts in the US, that’s not Mexico’s problem, either.
So, Mexico has no obligation, either legal or moral, to allow entry to the Colombian deportees. Before the US tries to strong-arm Mexico into “revisiting” this matter, the US might want to consider how rapidly China’s influence is expanding in Mexico, and why.
It certainly is.
You really seem to know nothing about how the whole sovereign nation system works. A nation is responsible for everything that comes out of its territory. Otherwise, they have no legitimate claim to sovereignty. Mexico can claim that it cannot help what happens from the Mexican side at the border, and that is fine, but then it would mean that AMerica has every right to do whatever is necessary to control the parts of Mexico that Mexico cannot control and that affect us.
As to people, if someone comes here from Mexico they should go back the way they came. If Mexico doesn’t like that then Mexico should not have let them traverse their whole country and then helped them breech our border – which is something that Mexico has been doing for a long time and is, in fact, an Act of War against us.
China in our hemisphere? That what the Monroe Doctrine is for; establishing and maintaining US hegemony within our hemisphere.
Another avenue is to impose a withholding on all international transfers of 25%. People impacted can get it back when they file their annual US income tax…assuming they have a valid SSA #.
The other underappreciated issue is the requirement for ‘Real ID’ finally coming into place this Spring. Requiring that to send a wire and apply for/receive any federal benefits, file taxes, get any sort of permit or seek employment will do wonders for encouraging self deportation.
To “CommoChief”:
The Monroe Doctrine isn’t some magic word that will make Chinese influence disappear from this hemisphere merely by being spoken. If that were the case, Chinese influence would never have reached its present proportions in Mexico, or in the Panama Canal zone.
The days are over when the US could just say “Jump!” and Latin America could only respond “How high?”
Certainly, as you say, no obligation. But the U.S. is not playing by the rules in vogue since the Obama administration. Obama held that the U.S. was “just another country” no different than say, Argentina or New Zealand or Congo. We are not. We are an economic superpower.
Trump is a businessman who understands economic leverage. Mexico has no obligation to take anyone but Mexican citizens. The American has no obligation to give Mexico an opportunity to do business on terms favorable to Mexico unless they are doing what we want.
So. which does Mexico prefer? A small carrot in the form of slightly increased foreign aid or a big stick of targeted tariff?
Note that Trump need not tariff everything and everything equally from Mexico. He might, say, tax U.S. owned companies less.
moonmoth,
As the USA pulls in our horns globally and we refocus our attention to our own hemisphere, which is what MAGA is all about, we’ll have spare capacity diplomatic, economic and militarily to conduct persuasive communications.
We don’t have to directly confront China to do so. Just be willing to confront the Nations within our hemisphere. Offer a choice, work with the USA and our economic partners or with China. I suspect that given the choice of being shut out of not just US markets but every trading partner of the US as well as access to US capital markets and of course no longer under the protective umbrella provided by the USA they will fall in line.
Just a bit of tinkering to stop unfettered remittances would be devastating. Adding an embargo followed by a blockade if necessary would really hurt these Nations. IMO they shouldn’t push towards such a course and should begin acting like a friendly Nation instead of one who doesn’t care about the US. Good neighbors willingly help each other and cooperate bad neighbors tend to feud and if one neighbor is the biggest, baddest guy on the block and isn’t asking for anything unreasonable maybe it’s better not to go out of your way to get them PO? Unless of course you’re willing to accept what follows. FAFO.
Mexico let them into their country for the express purpose of violating our laws.
They get thrown back across whatever border they came from. Drive them in trucks and dump them over the Mexico border.
If Mexico doesn’t like that, tough. It should have thought of that before letting MILLIONS of illegals through their country.
Mexico let them into their country for the express purpose of violating our laws.
No. Recall that the Obama/Biden administration hung out the Welcome sign to migrants. It isn’t Mexico’s fault if some of those migrants chose, instead, to cross illegally.
We’re not asking.
Can’t we just catapult them over the border and whoever lands in one piece wins? Not sure what they win exactly, but they get a nice commemorative gas station drinking glass.
Colombia has no border with the US. And what justification does the US have for committing the sick, criminal action that you’re proposing?
Hey, that’s no mean Lovely Parting Gift. If you can score those things at a yard sale, you’re winning. They’re probably worth a month’s salary each in Venezuela.
Perhaps there was just a hint of a suggestion that we wouldn’t necessarily need to land the planes in order to return the deportees….
Good grief, how this situation has brought out a dark, sick side of LI’s regulars.
Check your dictionary for the term “black humor”, and then unwind your fingers from your pearls.
There’s nothing humorous about the sick, criminal measures that LI regulars have been proposing in connection with this situation.
Sure there is. One should never lose their sense of humor when faced with such news.
You don’t seem to possess a sense of humor, nor do you seem to realize how much of a humorless scold you appear to be.
The perennial whine of the Karen: “That’s not funny!”
No, its hilarious, as are your whining comments. I especially love it when you complain about someone misspelling ColUmbia.
I hear your fainting couch calling.
Good grief, how this situation has brought out the simps, gimps, and hand-wringers who aren’t fit for the kind of work required (thanks to Democrats) to turn this country around.
You should probably head over to the Bulwark, where they solicit commentary such as yours.
Be sure to let LI regulars know when you start recruiting your einsatzgruppe to implement your Final Solution to the illegal immigrant problem.
LOL. Does your calling me a Nazi mean I get to call Godwin’s Law and claim the victory?
Yeah, yeah, we’re all fascists. ◔_◔
“You should probably head over to the Bulwark”
So that LI’s comment section becomes an echo chamber? You’re sounding like a Democrat — or like the pre-Trump Zuckerberg.
But… but… but… that’s a good thing, right?
That saves Our Democracy!
You clearly don’t know me. I’m just a bit to the right of Genghis Khan.
The funny thing is that only douchy liberals like you and JR seem to be concerned about the feelings of nameless Colombians when their country’s name gets misspelled.
Did you ever figure out how to spell “bunch?”
By all means claim “victory” if you’re determined to leave any fence-sitters who come to this site, with the impression that conservatives are sociopaths. Although I’ve been very clear (in previous comment sections) that I support the deportations, LI regulars call me a gimp, a whiner, and a simp b/c I object to their sick “jokes” about how to treat deportees.
You, yourself, take those sociopathic attitudes a step further: you say that my objections to those “jokes” shows that I’m “not fit for the kind of work that’s required” for dealing with illegal immigration.
Why should newcomers to this site not conclude that you’re not endorsing the criminal actions that I suggested in the “jokes” that I criticized?
Correction: “that are suggested in the ‘jokes’ that I criticized”
I’d like to see a dashboard showing total number deported, breakdown by country, criminal convictions of those deported, etc
That sort of dashboard shouldn’t be difficult to produce. The info that you’ve suggested would be collected as part of the deportation process. Or at least that’s the case in the country where I serve as a missionary; the gov’t here once had me serve as an official witness when an American visitor was deported for violating a slew of local laws.
What about Harvard and Princeton???
They’re just bleeding paying American citizens. It’s a start.
Oh moonmoth – I forgot to address China and Central/South America. What China does is lend money for infrastructure construction projects and then direct that the business go to Chinese owned companies. They also buy companies. However what China doesn’t do is buy foreign products. The most recent figure I can find quickly is about $10B in imports per year from Mexico. America imports about $450B.
Latin American countries are well aware of everything that you say, but they’re drawing closer to China anyway. That’s reality, like it or not.