Petro rejects the entrance to Colombia of airplanes with deported migrants by the US if they do not receive a “dignified treatment”
The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, said this Sunday that he will not allow the country of any American plane with deported citizens if the United States does not guarantee that they receive decent treatment. “The US cannot treat Colombian migrants as criminals. Unauthorized the entry of American airplanes with Colombian migrants to our territory. The US must establish a decent treatment protocol for migrants before we receive them, ”Petro said in a message in his X account.
The Colombian president says he “returned the US military planes that came with Colombian migrants.” “A migrant is not a criminal and must be treated with the dignity that a human being deserves,” he insisted, to add: “I can't make migrants stay in a country that does not want them, but if that country returns them It must be with dignity and respect with them and our country. ” The president has also requested that these people be sent “in civil airplanes, without criminals' treatment”, because “Colombia is respected.”
The announcement occurs in the midst of the controversy in several Latin American countries for deportations as part of the immigration policy of US President Donald Trump. The Brazilian government denounced on Saturday the use of wives by US authorities against citizens of that country during a deportation flight. Brazilian Minister of Justice and Public Security, Ricardo Lewandowski, ordered the Federal Police to ask US agents with the “immediate” withdrawal of the wives, as soon as the plane made a technical stop in the city of Manaus, according to a statement.
On Friday, the White House indicated that the deportations of migrants had “started” in reference to the Main Trump campaign promise of carrying out the greatest operation of mass expulsion of foreigners in the history of the United States. On the same day, the first two deportation flights destined for Guatemala arrived in that country from Laredo, in Texas.
Petro has questioned some of Trump's decisions or policies, and last Tuesday he called “dangerous” the comment made by the White House on Latin America, region on which the American ruler said: “We don't need them.”
“We must wait for the development of relationships and politics on the planet, not only in the United States. But I would say that the announcement that we are alone and we don't care Latin America, etc.
The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, also assured on Saturday that the United States “would not be what it is” without the Mexicans who are going to work there, before the beginning of the migratory raids that began after the arrival in the presidency of Trump.
