{"id":955,"date":"2025-01-26T16:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/?p=955"},"modified":"2025-01-26T17:25:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T17:25:44","slug":"colombian-president-says-hell-block-deportation-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/colombian-president-says-hell-block-deportation-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombian president says he\u2019ll block deportation flights"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US cannot treat \u201cmigrants as criminals,\u201d Gustavo Petro has said<\/strong><\/p>\n

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has said that he will deny entry to American planes carrying deported migrants. The US has been rounding up criminal migrants and deporting them ever since President Donald Trump took office.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe US cannot treat Colombian migrants as criminals,\u201d<\/em> Petro wrote on X on Sunday. \u201cI will deny the entry of American planes carrying Colombian migrants into our territory,\u201d<\/em> he continued, adding that \u201cThe United States must establish a protocol for the dignified treatment of migrants before we receive them.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

It is unclear how many Colombians are currently in US custody and awaiting deportation.<\/p>\n

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been carrying out daily raids across the US since Trump took office on Monday, with 421 people detained for removal on Saturday alone, according to the agency. Cities targeted included Boston, New York, Newark, and San Francisco, and agents focused on arresting immigrants who had committed subsequent crimes after entering the US illegally, ICE said.<\/p>\n

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In a statement on Thursday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that \u201cdeportation flights have begun.\u201d<\/em> Two military aircraft carried 160 people to Guatemala that day, while another three flights to Guatemala and four flights to Mexico took off on Friday.<\/p>\n

Media reports initially suggested that Mexico refused to accept these flights, but the White House said that this was due to an \u201cadministrative issue\u201d<\/em> that was quickly resolved.<\/p>\n

There are thought to be anywhere between 11 million and 35 million illegal immigrants living in the US. Trump promised on the campaign trail that, if elected, he would thin out this number by leading \u201cthe largest deportation operation in American history.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

While all illegal immigrants commit a crime the moment they enter the US by unlawful means, both Trump and his border czar, Tom Homan, have said that this operation will focus initially on those who have racked up criminal records inside after entering the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re getting the bad, hard criminals out,\u201d<\/em> Trump told reporters in North Carolina on Friday. \u201cThese are murderers. These are people that have been as bad as you get, as bad as anybody you\u2019ve seen. We\u2019re taking them out first.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The US cannot treat \u201cmigrants as criminals,\u201d Gustavo Petro has said Colombian President Gustavo Petro has said that he will deny entry to American planes carrying deported migrants. The US has been rounding up criminal migrants and deporting them ever since President Donald Trump took office. \u201cThe US cannot treat Colombian migrants as criminals,\u201d Petro…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}