Steve HermanPresident Trump says he's taking immediate retaliatory measures against Colombia for its government not allowing two repatriation flights from the US, "with a large number of Illegal Criminals," to land there.
Update: Colombia's president to offer his presidential plane for repatriation of Colombian nationals deported from the US.
"President Trump is not messing around when it comes to protecting America’s Homeland." - Karoline Leavitt, White House press secretary on the immediate actions imposed against Colombia
Colombia’s president “authorized flights and provided all needed authorizations and then canceled his authorization when the planes were in the air.“ - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio
Paul@w7voa I'm hearing from a friend in the US that it's being reported that Colombia folded very quickly after Trump's threats?
That doesn't seem to align with the message you posted re the Colombian President saying he would offer his plane to repatriate them? I read that as being back to the US
Not that it would work very well if he tried that
Jonah Gibberish@HardBeingGreen @w7voa that reporting isn't true. the Colombian president said that if the migrants were returned with dignity as they normally are then they will accept them, the Trump admin sent the Colombians back in chains and on a military flight, normally its just a commercial flight and nobody's in chains, totally gross and unnecessary cruelty from the Trump admin for a photo op
Yeah seems that's the case. Now Trump claiming it's all resolved and the Colombian President has caved
Reading his earlier comments it sure didn't seem that way
I'm guessing the truth is somewhere in-between. Crisis averted, well this time anyway