Bogota said yesterday that it had “overcome the deadlock” with Washington in a dispute over accepting migrants deported from the United States.
The White House said on Sunday that Colombia had relented and agreed to accept repatriated citizens on military flights after President Donald Trump threatened sweeping sanctions. TASR informs about it according to the report of the AFP agency.
Colombia agreed to “unrestricted admission of all Colombian illegal aliens returning from the United States, including aboard U.S. military aircraft, without restriction or delay. Today’s events clearly showed the world that America has respect again,” the White House said in a statement.
“President Trump will continue to fiercely protect our nation’s sovereignty and expects all other nations of the world to fully cooperate in accepting the deportation of their citizens who are in the United States illegally,” the statement concluded.
“We will continue to receive Colombians who return as deportees,” Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo said at a press conference.
Colombia on Sunday refused to accept two US military planes arriving from California with a total of about 160 Colombian migrants on board. In response, US President Donald Trump ordered sweeping tariffs and sanctions, to which Bogota responded by imposing a 25 percent tariff on US goods.
