Colombia blocks deportation flights, Trump responds with tariffs

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombias-petro-will-not-allow-us-planes-return-migrants-2025-01-26/

This is an interesting development. Colombia said they wouldn’t take back their own citizens so Trump is enacting tariffs and other measures.

Personally, I think this is a great move. It is the responsibility of the host nation to repatriate their citizens. I do not understand why Colombia won’t welcome their own people back.

They don’t have any issues taking their migrants back. They are demanding they are returned on civilian flights like humans.

To me, that’s a fair ask.

Why don't they (Colombia) pay for these flights then? THAT would be fair

The civilian deportations under Biden cost $9,000 per flight. The Trump military flights are costing $900,000.

Again, the military budget is already spoken for.

An airman is being paid no matter what they do. The airplanes are flying regardless due to training.

I get that you’re trying to make a point, but this is like a pre-paid cell phone plan. It doesn’t matter who you call, you’ve already paid for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The flowers I bought at Trader Joe’s yesterday were from Colombia.

Oh no, how will we ever survive

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We get 27% of our coffee imports from Colombia.

Covfefe is about to be more expensive.

It’s going to be interesting seeing how much price tolerance Americans have. We have been losing it over Eggs for months now, which is fair it’s a staple grocery, but it is just a few dollars and the complaints are incessant. How will people feel about the price of their daily comfort drink going up to stick it to a country that most Americans don’t give AF about.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombias-petro-will-not-allow-us-planes-return-migrants-2025-01-26/

This is an interesting development. Colombia said they wouldn’t take back their own citizens so Trump is enacting tariffs and other measures.

Personally, I think this is a great move. It is the responsibility of the host nation to repatriate their citizens. I do not understand why Colombia won’t welcome their own people back.

They don’t have any issues taking their migrants back. They are demanding they are returned on civilian flights like humans.

To me, that’s a fair ask.

Why don't they (Colombia) pay for these flights then? THAT would be fair

"Colombia's Petro condemned the practice on Sunday, suggesting it treated migrants like criminals. In a post on social media platform X, Petro said Colombia would welcome home deported migrants on civilian planes."
As for who pays:
1. the US does not pay when US citizens are repatriated, it's a 90 day loan that has to be paid back
2. Are you suggesting Colombia is supposed to require exit visas the way Saudi Arabia, Russia, Belarus, and Qatar do? Or all the former Soviet bloc countries?

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Anonymous wrote:You can always tell when MAGA knows they lost. They always get super defensive and resort to lame attempts at humor. They know they lost, but they bought it all and can’t back out

Lost what exactly? This is exactly what we voted for and I love this.

Your dignity and humanity.

For what? They are criminals! They need to go back and their countries need to repatriate them. What don’t you understand? You want these illegal criminals here? Where is your humanity to their victims?????

Would you make Laken Riley have her rapist’s baby? Yes or no?

Let’s ask her which is worse, oh wait, we can’t.

Would you or wouldn’t you make her give birth to the monster’s baby?

Laken’s illegal alien murderer fractured her skull with a rock. He took away her ability to live and breathe, you ghoul.

How about we ask you a question: if you had your head beaten in with a rock and your brains spread around the floor of the forest, would you carry a pregnancy to term?

DP. You think you’re being so clever talking about brains spread around? You’re disgusting you POS! If only you cared as much about the 19 kids and 2 teachers at Uvalde, some of who were so mutilated by gunfire (exploded heads, for example), that they had to be identified with DNA.

“In two and a half minutes, before any police officer set foot inside the school, the gunman fired more than 100 rounds at students and teachers from point-blank range. Several victims lost large portions of their heads, photos taken by investigators show. Bullets tore gashes in flesh as long as a foot. They shattered a child’s shin, nearly severed another’s arm at the elbow, ripped open another’s neck, blasted a hole the size of a baseball in another’s hip. Other rounds penetrated the wall of Room 111, passed through the empty Room 110, punctured another wall and wounded a student and teacher in Room 109, who survived.

When medics finally reached the victims, there was nothing they could do for most, they said in interviews with investigators. Eighteen of the 21 were pronounced dead at the school. Police assigned each a letter of the alphabet and took DNA samples so they could be identified by family.”

Wrong thread.

It’s not the wrong thread. It’s this thread. See the last 18:27 post. MAGA likes to insert Laken Riley into practically every topic, including this unrelated one, and it’s disgusting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombias-petro-will-not-allow-us-planes-return-migrants-2025-01-26/

This is an interesting development. Colombia said they wouldn’t take back their own citizens so Trump is enacting tariffs and other measures.

Personally, I think this is a great move. It is the responsibility of the host nation to repatriate their citizens. I do not understand why Colombia won’t welcome their own people back.

They don’t have any issues taking their migrants back. They are demanding they are returned on civilian flights like humans.

To me, that’s a fair ask.

Why don't they (Colombia) pay for these flights then? THAT would be fair

The civilian deportations under Biden cost $9,000 per flight. The Trump military flights are costing $900,000.

Again, the military budget is already spoken for.

An airman is being paid no matter what they do. The airplanes are flying regardless due to training.

I get that you’re trying to make a point, but this is like a pre-paid cell phone plan. It doesn’t matter who you call, you’ve already paid for it.

So you’re not in favor of reducing the deficit? We can overspend when it comes to immigration?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We get 27% of our coffee imports from Colombia.

Covfefe is about to be more expensive.

It’s going to be interesting seeing how much price tolerance Americans have. We have been losing it over Eggs for months now, which is fair it’s a staple grocery, but it is just a few dollars and the complaints are incessant. How will people feel about the price of their daily comfort drink going up to stick it to a country that most Americans don’t give AF about.

We’re going to be in a recession soon, and unemployment will be climbing with all the layoffs in the feds, healthcare, and international relations, so I guess we’ll see what Americans say soon enough.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombias-petro-will-not-allow-us-planes-return-migrants-2025-01-26/

This is an interesting development. Colombia said they wouldn’t take back their own citizens so Trump is enacting tariffs and other measures.

Personally, I think this is a great move. It is the responsibility of the host nation to repatriate their citizens. I do not understand why Colombia won’t welcome their own people back.

They don’t have any issues taking their migrants back. They are demanding they are returned on civilian flights like humans.

To me, that’s a fair ask.

Why don't they (Colombia) pay for these flights then? THAT would be fair

The civilian deportations under Biden cost $9,000 per flight. The Trump military flights are costing $900,000.

Again, the military budget is already spoken for.

An airman is being paid no matter what they do. The airplanes are flying regardless due to training.

I get that you’re trying to make a point, but this is like a pre-paid cell phone plan. It doesn’t matter who you call, you’ve already paid for it.

So you’re not in favor of reducing the deficit? We can overspend when it comes to immigration?

Absolutely I’m in favor of reducing the deficit. But I consider these repatriation flights money well spent. Which points to the broader issue of why it’s so hard to bring down the deficit - too many competing interest.

[Anonymous]

InGO workers on here? How you doing?

[Anonymous]

I want to have stickers made saying "Trump did this" to surreptitiously put on price labels in stores anytime a tariff goes into effect on products from the country the items are from.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We get 27% of our coffee imports from Colombia.

Covfefe is about to be more expensive.

It’s going to be interesting seeing how much price tolerance Americans have. We have been losing it over Eggs for months now, which is fair it’s a staple grocery, but it is just a few dollars and the complaints are incessant. How will people feel about the price of their daily comfort drink going up to stick it to a country that most Americans don’t give AF about.

We’re going to be in a recession soon, and unemployment will be climbing with all the layoffs in the feds, healthcare, and international relations, so I guess we’ll see what Americans say soon enough.

All those who get laid off can just take all the jobs all these wonderful, honest, taxpaying, and honorable deportees were doing.

Because that's the lie, right?

Lots of fun: boning chickens by the thousand, slipping on cow blood on the slaughter floor, shlepping pieces of moldy drywall in Florida after the next hurricane, replacing said walls and roofs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombias-petro-will-not-allow-us-planes-return-migrants-2025-01-26/

This is an interesting development. Colombia said they wouldn’t take back their own citizens so Trump is enacting tariffs and other measures.

Personally, I think this is a great move. It is the responsibility of the host nation to repatriate their citizens. I do not understand why Colombia won’t welcome their own people back.

They don’t have any issues taking their migrants back. They are demanding they are returned on civilian flights like humans.

To me, that’s a fair ask.

Why don't they (Colombia) pay for these flights then? THAT would be fair

The civilian deportations under Biden cost $9,000 per flight. The Trump military flights are costing $900,000.

Colombia accepted 475 repatriation flights from the US. 120 last year. No tariff war was necessary

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We get 27% of our coffee imports from Colombia.

Covfefe is about to be more expensive.

It’s going to be interesting seeing how much price tolerance Americans have. We have been losing it over Eggs for months now, which is fair it’s a staple grocery, but it is just a few dollars and the complaints are incessant. How will people feel about the price of their daily comfort drink going up to stick it to a country that most Americans don’t give AF about.

We’re going to be in a recession soon, and unemployment will be climbing with all the layoffs in the feds, healthcare, and international relations, so I guess we’ll see what Americans say soon enough.

All those who get laid off can just take all the jobs all these wonderful, honest, taxpaying, and honorable deportees were doing.

Because that's the lie, right?

It sounds very Trumpian to suggest a government economist in DC can move to Texas to pick berries.

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Anonymous wrote:You can always tell when MAGA knows they lost. They always get super defensive and resort to lame attempts at humor. They know they lost, but they bought it all and can’t back out

Lost what exactly? This is exactly what we voted for and I love this.

Your dignity and humanity.

For what? They are criminals! They need to go back and their countries need to repatriate them. What don’t you understand? You want these illegal criminals here? Where is your humanity to their victims?????

Would you make Laken Riley have her rapist’s baby? Yes or no?

Let’s ask her which is worse, oh wait, we can’t.

Would you or wouldn’t you make her give birth to the monster’s baby?

DP, but no, she was in GA which would have allowed her to have an abortion up to 22 weeks.

Then why did you vote for abortion restrictions?

I don’t remember seeing it on the federal ballot?

SCOTUS overturned roe with Trump's picks genius.

Lady, you are absolutely unhinged. We get it — you respect the rights of criminal illegal aliens more than the rights of US citizens. You think the right to kill your unborn child is more important than the right to not be killed by an illegal alien. You have more interest in talking about the hypothetical rape pregnancy of a young lady who was raped and killed by an illegal alien, than the fact that the president of Colombia would rather hurt his country’s economy than take back his own citizens who were in the US illegally.

You have very bizarre priorities, and it is a mercy to us all that your party is not in power. -NP

The monster that killed laken Riley did it because he was a depraved murderer, not because he was from Venezuela. We also have depraved murderers right here from the US. And that is not because they were born here.

Omg give it up. We have no obligation to keep depraved murders from other countries in the US.

Aliens who murder in the US go to prison, so yes, we do keep them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You can always tell when MAGA knows they lost. They always get super defensive and resort to lame attempts at humor. They know they lost, but they bought it all and can’t back out

Lost what exactly? This is exactly what we voted for and I love this.

Your dignity and humanity.

For what? They are criminals! They need to go back and their countries need to repatriate them. What don’t you understand? You want these illegal criminals here? Where is your humanity to their victims?????

Would you make Laken Riley have her rapist’s baby? Yes or no?

Let’s ask her which is worse, oh wait, we can’t.

Would you or wouldn’t you make her give birth to the monster’s baby?

DP, but no, she was in GA which would have allowed her to have an abortion up to 22 weeks.

Then why did you vote for abortion restrictions?

I don’t remember seeing it on the federal ballot?

SCOTUS overturned roe with Trump's picks genius.

Lady, you are absolutely unhinged. We get it — you respect the rights of criminal illegal aliens more than the rights of US citizens. You think the right to kill your unborn child is more important than the right to not be killed by an illegal alien. You have more interest in talking about the hypothetical rape pregnancy of a young lady who was raped and killed by an illegal alien, than the fact that the president of Colombia would rather hurt his country’s economy than take back his own citizens who were in the US illegally.

You have very bizarre priorities, and it is a mercy to us all that your party is not in power. -NP

You’re talking to different people