Colombia President Says Will Not Settle for US Deportation Flights

Colombia’s left-wing President Gustavo Petro mentioned Sunday he wouldn’t enable US migrant deportation flights entry to his nation’s airspace.

“The US can’t deal with Colombian migrants as criminals. I forbid entry to our territory to US planes carrying Colombian migrants,” Petro wrote on X, including they might solely be accepted as soon as Washington had created a protocol making certain the “dignified therapy” of the migrants.

Petro added in a later submit that he had “turned again US army planes that had been coming with Colombian migrants,” with out giving additional particulars.

AFP couldn’t instantly obtain affirmation from the USA that Colombian-bound deportation flights had been blocked.

Petro’s remarks come a day after Brazil’s authorities equally expressed outrage on the administration of recent US president Donald Trump over the therapy of dozens of Brazilians deported from the USA.

The migrants had been handcuffed on the flight in what Brazil known as a “flagrant disregard” for his or her primary rights.

Petro mentioned he would enable in civilian US flights carrying deported migrants so long as they weren’t handled “like criminals.”

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