Deportation flights between the U.S. and Colombia have resumed following a dispute between the two countries that nearly led to a trade war
But in a statement late on Sunday, the White House said Colombia had agreed to accept the migrants after all and Washington would not impose the penalties. Colombia's Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo said separately the country's presidential plane was ready to carry deportees.
Colombia welcomed its first flights of deported illegal immigrants with its president heralding their return and insisting they are not criminals.
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Boeing 737-700 aircraft before preparing to take off to San Diego, California, to bring back ... the president of Colombia has just futzed around and found out. Over the weekend, Gustavo Petro ...
Dozens of Colombian illegal migrants arrived home from the United States Tuesday, grateful for an end to a grueling deportation ordeal at the heart of a bitter row between the countries. The Republican president's plans for mass migrant deportations has put him on a potential collision course with governments in Latin America -- the original home of most of the United States' estimated 11 million undocumented migrants.
The White House said on Sunday that Colombia has agreed to all of President Donald Trump’s terms after Trump threatened to impose sweeping retaliatory measures against Colombia, including tariffs and visa sanctions,
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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.
Colombia has denied entry to two U.S. military deportation flights, according to officials from the Department of Homeland Security and the Defense Department. The flights, carried out on U.S. military C-17 aircraft, were carrying about 80 Colombian migrants each and had departed from California, the defense official told NBC News.
The stakes vary country to country. Colombia is a minor trade partner with the U.S., and not a major supplier of migrants. The impasse between the United States and Colombia over deportation ...