President Gustavo Petro He said, this Sunday, January 26, 2025, that he will not allow the country of airplanes with citizens deported by the United States if they do not receive decent treatment.
“The US cannot treat Colombian migrants as criminals. Unauthorized the entry of American airplanes with Colombian migrants to our territory. USA must establish a decent treatment protocol for migrants before we receive them“Petro said in a message on his X account.
The US cannot treat Colombian migrants as criminals.
Unauthorized the entry of American airplanes with Colombian migrants to our territory.
The US must establish a decent treatment protocol for migrants before we receive them.
– Gustavo Petro (@Petrogustavo) January 26, 2025
Petro did not give details of his decision, but the announcement occurs in the midst of the controversy in several Latin American countries for deportations as part of the migratory policy of the US president, Donald Trump.
The Brazilian government denounced on Saturday the use of wives by US authorities against citizens of that country during a deportation flight.
The Minister of Justice and Public Security, Ricardo Lewandowski, ordered the Federal Police to ask US agents to withdraw “immediately” from wives, as soon as the plane made a technical stop in the city of Manaus, according to a statement.
On Friday, the White House indicated that the deportations of migrants had “started”, in reference to Trump’s main campaign promise to carry out the greatest operation of mass expulsion of foreigners in the history of the United States.
On the same day, the first two deportation flights to Guatemala arrived in that country from Laredo (Texas).
Petro has questioned some of Trump’s decisions or policies, and last Tuesday he called “dangerous” the comment made by the White House on Latin America, region on which the American ruler said: “We do not need them.”
“We must wait for the development of relationships and politics on the planet, not only in the United States. But I would say that the announcement that we are alone and we do not care Latin America, etc., it is a dangerous announcement not for the world only , but for the same American society, “Petro told reporters
The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, also assured on Saturday that the United States “would not be what is” without the Mexicans who are going to work there, before the beginning of the migratory raids that began after the arrival in the presidency of Trump.
EFE
