One plane, flying from San Diego, California, brought home 110 Colombians and the other, which departed from El Paso, Texas, brought home 91, the Colombian Foreign Ministry said on X.
Daniel Oquendo, 33, remembers well the first words US border agents told him after he crossed the US-Mexico border on0.
A Colombian air force plane landed in Bogota Wednesday with 105 Colombian nationals deported from the United States, marking the third flight of its kind this week, the Colombian Foreign Ministry said.
The Colombian air force has flown deportees from San Diego to Bogota, marking a resolution in a dispute between the U.S. and Colombia over deportation flights. The agreement, achieved through diplomatic negotiations,
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'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.
Mr Trump had threatened to impose tariffs on Colombian goods after its president refused to let deportation planes land. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The first set of two Columbian Air Force planes carrying migrants from the U.S. arrived at El Dorado International Airport in Bogota on Tuesday. Colombian Foreign Ministry in an X post on Tuesday said
Repatriation flights began landing in Colombia Tuesday after President Donald Trump successfully strong-armed the country into accepting their deportees again.
Colombia received its third deportation flight from the U.S. amid a diplomatic standoff between Petro and Trump. With the suspension of travel visas, Petro’s late-night social media postings have fueled concern over his erratic leadership style.
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Visa appointments at the U.S. Embassy in Colombia were canceled Monday following a dispute between President Donald Trump and his