President Trump slaps tariffs on Colombia after it turns around US migrant flights

Immigration in some instances can have foreign relations consequences.  President Trump’s removals appear to be provoking responses in the governments of other countries.  

Politico describes how President Donald Trump said yesterday that he will slap an emergency 25 percent tariff on all goods imported from Colombia after the country’s president turned away two U.S. military aircraft returning Colombian migrants.  Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s “denial of these flights has jeopardized the National Security and Public Safety of the United States, so I have directed my Administration to immediately take the following and decisive retaliatory measures,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social, outlining his threats.  Petro later appeared to back down, posting in a statement that he has arranged the plane to “facilitate the dignified return of the nationals who were to arrive today in the morning.” But in a lengthy rant on X, he said Colombia has never refused to accept migrants, but that he will not receive deportees “handcuffed and on military craft.”