Colombia's president bans U.S. planes landing with deportable Colombians

Colombia refuses to accept U.S. airplanes with deported Colombians. The country's president, Gustavo Petro, said on January 26.

"The United States cannot treat Colombian migrants as offenders. I refuse access to our territory to American airplanes carrying Colombian migrants," Petro wrote on his social networking page X (formerly Twitter).

He said it was necessary to establish a protocol for treating migrants with dignity before Colombia starts accepting them again.

Later, according to Reuters, Colombia deployed two U.S. military planes bound for the Latin American country with about 160 deportable migrants on board.

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The day before, Mexico refused to accept a plane with deported migrants from the United States. It was noted that the reason for this decision was not clear, but a White House spokesman said that "the problem with the flights was administrative" and it was quickly fixed.

The first American planes with migrants arrived in Guatemala the day before, January 24. On board the aircraft were 48 men, 31 women and one unaccompanied teenager. They were all registered and will be provided with food, clothing, and psychological care.

US President Donald Trump said that the deportation of illegal migrants from the country is going well. The American leader noted that first of all, criminals are expelled from the country.

Earlier, on January 22, Trump restricted the right of illegal migrants who got into the United States through the southern border. He instructed the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and the State Department to take all necessary measures to immediately repel the invasion, repatriation and removal of illegal immigrants through the southern border of the country.

The next day, January 23, it was reported that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained more than 460 illegal immigrants during the first days of Trump's presidency, including those with convictions for sexual and domestic violence, as well as drug and weapons offenses. Colombian nationals were among those detained.