Deportation flights between the U.S. and Colombia resumed on Tuesday, Jan. 28 after the diplomatic drama over the weekend between President Donald Trump and Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro. A deal between both countries was reportedly made on Sunday night to resume the removal flights,
The U.S. and Colombia pulled back from the brink of a trade war on Sunday after the White House said the South American nation had agreed to accept military aircraft from San Diego carrying deported migrants.
A U.S. military plane with migrants bound at their wrists and ankles has left Texas bound for Guatemala carrying 80 deportees, eight of them children.
Colombia's Foreign Affairs Ministry said the government was sending a Colombian Air Force plane to San Diego to pick up a group of Colombians who were on a deportation flight that was not allowed to land on Sunday morning.
A trade spat erupted after Colombia refused US deportation flights, prompting Trump to threaten steep tariffs and sanctions. The impasse was resolved, but tensions revealed cracks in US-Colombian relations.
The U.S. Army unveiled the first 3D-printed barracks, which were built as part of a pilot project to improve soldiers' living conditions at Fort Bliss.
Fort Bliss is providing “additional support” and training for the border mission in response to the national emergency declared by the Trump Administration,
Colombia's President Gustavo Petro averted an economic disaster at the 11th hour after diplomats from his government and the U.S. reached a deal on deportation flights.
Colombia’s Gustavo Petro had vowed to refuse deportation flights until migrants were guaranteed ‘dignified treatment’.
Colombia is the second Latin American nation to refuse US military deportation flights. Trump’s punitive action demonstrated his more muscular US foreign policy and his renewed willingness to force countries to bend to his will.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday ordered sweeping tariffs and sanctions against Colombia in retaliation for its refusal to accept military deportation flights, seeking to punish one of his most defiant critics in Latin America.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Active duty military troops will begin arriving in El Paso, Texas, and San Diego on Thursday evening, in what defense officials said is the first batch of the new forces being ...