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Image source, Getty images Photo foot, Trump said that one of his government’s spotlights would be migration and, specifically, deportation of people who were in the country illegally. Article information Author, Drafting Author’s title, BBC News World January 27, 2025 Donald Trump has already announced in his electoral campaign: one of the central objectives of his new government would be to close the borders of the United States and carry out the “greater deportation” of migrants in the history of that country. Just a week after having returned to the White House, the new president has started the mass deportations of undocumented migrants. On Friday, the White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, published photos in which migrants were seen addressing military aircraft for deportation flights this weekend. Precisely Colombia’s initial refusal to receive these flights generated an impasse between the two countries that was solved within a few hours. There are already several Latin American countries that have received these flights. But reactions in the region have varied from reluctance, criticism, opening or collaboration with binational agreements. Colombia: Agreement after a Impasse While at first the president, Gustavo Petro, refused to receive two military aircraft with Colombians deported from the United States, the idea of ​​an escalation in a commercial war between the two countries caused this decision to be reversed. In addition to the initial increase of 25% of tariffs on “all Colombian goods entering the United States, Trump had said that in a week that rate would increase up to 50%. In response to these measures, Petro announced in his X account a similar increase in tariffs on products imported to Colombia from the United States. Petro’s argument to refuse this repatriation were the conditions and, specifically, that the return was made in military and non -civil aircraft. “The United States cannot treat Colombian migrants as criminals,” Petro wrote in his X account. The president claimed that deportations be made in “civil planes” and that a protocol is established, because “a migrant is not a criminal.” However, after overcoming the impasse, the White House expressed in a statement that Colombia agreed “the unrestricted acceptance of all illegal immigrants in Colombia returned from the United States, including those that arrive in military planes, without limitations or delay.” Mexico: Contingency Plan This Monday, Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that the country has already received some 4,000 deported migrants, mostly Mexicans, from the United States. Sheinbaum said that in the last week they received four aircraft with deportees, but that this is not a significant increase to other occasions. “From January 20 to 26, 4,094 people have been received, the vast majority of them Mexican (…). So far there has been no substantive increase” in the expulsions, the president said in her morning press conference. He also recalled that there is a sustained dialogue between the two countries on the migratory and customs issue. Image source, COURTESY OF THE WHITE HOUSE Photo foot, The White House published images of the deportations of migrants in military aircraft. “This is a job that we have in dialogue with the United States government and it is something that in Mexico has already done many years. What we ask for is respect for human rights,” he emphasized. It is estimated that a third of the 11 million undocumented in the US are Mexican. Trump promises to deport a million people a year. In 2012, when more deportations have been registered in the last half century, the number of repatriated did not go from 420,000, according to figures from the PEW Studies Center. Given this, Mexico said to be prepared and have a containment plan. “We want them to know that we are prepared, that we are ready, to support our nationals and we are certain that we are going to reach agreements with the government of President Trump once the right channels are established,” Sheinbaum said in this regard. To do this, Mexico announced the strengthening of its consular networks in the United States, where it has 53 headquarters. He also promoted an application for the cell phone, ConsultApp, to inform migrants of their rights and also has an alert button to notify in case of imminent deportation. Image source, Getty images Photo foot, Claudia Sheinbaum behind the Secretary of Government, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, during the conference on the immigration plan in Mexico. He also made available to Mexicans a care network of the State. For example, they will receive a “paisan welfare card” with a 2,000 pesos bonus (about US $ 100) to cover expenses in the transfer to the place of origin and will be given access to social protection programs. El Salvador: “Third Safe Country” Contrary to the strap that occurred with the Petro government, the position of the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele has been different. While it is true that last July Trump launched an indirect to Bukele and told him that his country was “sending his murderers to the United States” and that he was not doing such a wonderful work “as he says, last week they approached positions . Trump telephoned his counterpart last week to talk about the fight against illegal immigration and criminal gangs such as the Aragua train -extended by several Latin American nations -, according to the White House. “President Trump also praised the leadership of President Bukele in the region and the example that gives other nations of the Western hemisphere,” said the US executive headquarters in a statement. Image source, Getty images Photo foot, The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele and the president of the United States, Donald Trump at a meeting in 2019. It was now learned that the Trump Administration is developing an agreement that will allow the US to deport El Salvador to migrants other than national country, as told by CBS News two sources familiar with internal deliberations. The agreement, known as “third safe country”, would allow these people to deport from the US to El … Read more