Arequipa, Peru – the president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced on Sunday the resurgence of sanctions against Gustavo Petro’s government in Colombia after the latter rejected two deportation flights with migrants from the American country.
“They just informed me that two repatriation flights from the United States, with a large number of illegal criminals, could not land in Colombia. This order was given by the socialist president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, who is already very unpopular among his people, ”Trump wrote in Your Truth Social Network.
The president considers that Petro’s refusal to these deportation flights compromises the national security and public safety of the United States, so he ordered the immediate taking of “urgent and decisive reprisal measures.”
Among the main announced restrictions stand out 25% emergency tariffs on all goods entering the United States. In a week, 25% tariffs will rise to 50%.
Likewise, a travel prohibition and immediate revocations of visas to the officials of the Colombian government and all their allies and supporters are listed on the list.
Also among the measures, which The US president He announced as “only the principle”, highlight financial sanctions and other visa prohibitions to all party members, family members and supporters of the Colombian government.
Trump’s announcement transcends less than a week after taking position in Washington of the ruler. The new president has focused several of his first government actions to stop migration.
Among the outstanding measures is the immediate resumption of the construction of the border wall, a central theme in Trump’s migratory agenda and to which he alluded to his speech when swearing as president number 47 of the United States. In addition, the president announced the end of citizenship by birth right in the United States.
In that same tenor, the US Coast Guard announced on Tuesday A reinforced operation in key points of the southeast border, including the Florida Strait, to contain the entry of irregular migrants by sea.
