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Orange Windbag gets his $852,000 military flight stunts into Colombia... for now [1]
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Date: 2025-01-27
Is this how we get a 'special military operation' on various sovereign nations, by starting a coffee war? Extortion and racketeering begin as Trump does a FAFO flex using military transport. Trump’s diplomacy by tweet only demonstrated his disrespect for a major hemispheric trading partner. The real beneficiaries will be private charter contractors. Trump’s deportation flights burn $852,000 each, carrying just 80 migrants on each C-17.
Colombia is not among the countries with the largest unauthorized immigrant populations in the United States...The immediate snag with the deportation flights appeared to be that U.S. military planes were transporting the undocumented migrants, a U.S. military official said on Sunday.
But on Sunday night, the White House released a statement in which it said that because Mr. Petro had agreed to all of its terms, the tariffs and sanctions Mr. Trump had threatened would be “held in reserve.” Other penalties, such as visa sanctions, will remain in effect until the first planeload of deportees has arrived in Colombia, the statement said.
“Today’s events make clear to the world that America is respected again,” it added.
Colombia’s foreign ministry released a statement soon afterward that said “we have overcome the impasse with the United States government.” It said the government would accept all deportation flights and “guarantee dignified conditions” for those Colombians on board.
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“I cannot make migrants stay in a country that does not want them,” Mr. Petro wrote, “but if that country sends them back, it should be with dignity and respect for them and for our country.”
He said he was still open to receiving deportees on nonmilitary flights.
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