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The number of people here misspelling Colombia…
Yeesh, I started it in the post. Corrected.
German spelling is Kolumbien, it might have something to do with that.
It's likely because there are a lot of things named Columbia in the US. District of Columbia, Columbia South Carolina, Columbia River, Columbia University, the space shuttle Columbia, and in Canada British Columbia.
If they won't take them, maybe we could put all these Columbians in some sort of District. A District of Columbia filled with criminals. Wait, we already have that.
Man, I’d love to meet the man, just so I could tell him to fuck off and die.
You missed the point where the people were cuffed the whole flight, were dehydrated and transported in military planes like cattle. That's why those planes were rejected.
The president send his own jet to get these people back because they are people not cattle.
Well, there goes Colombian coffee and bananas!
I mean .. they can still come in, they are just 25% more expensive for Americans
more. middle-men gonna middle on that 25%.
The best middle-men in this situation are the ones sidestepping the tariffs entirely.
Not like Colombia doesn't already have a rich history of smuggling high-demand US contraband over the border, but it will be weird to start getting all my coffee shipped by way of Langley.
Even weirder when they start packing coffee in cocaine to throw off the dogs.
You don't understand, tariff is promoting the emergence of American made alternative, by next week you will find American grown coffee and bananas in the supermarket.
Kind of glad I panic-bought ground Columbian coffee and froze it. Not that that's great, but better than nothing.
Cool, more tariffs to punish…us?
His base see it as him punishing Columbia and they'll later be surprised at how much some things cost and blame liberals for it.
Seems like Trump's strategy is to now bully countries into getting what they want. "I want them out!!! I want Canada!!! I want Greenland!!!
He's basically the equivalent of the kid that flips over the monopoly table when someone bought a property before him.
I feel like all economies will soon be just trading with eachother, except with the US.
That is the only logical step. You can’t make deals with someone who throws you under the bus at the next opportunity 🤷🏻
They should start now. Countries should cut off trading with the US once Trump starts making threats in their direction, instead of waiting for him to make up his mind and do something. He's too used to there not being any consequences.
Viva Colombia
"Criminals they forced into the United States" = "Invasion"
"Repatriation" != "Deportation"
Repatriation is what happens when you return a POW to their country of origin. Deportation is when you return a criminal to their country of origin.
POWs are not entitled to access to the criminal justice system. They can be held indefinitely without charges, or returned to their country of origin, without judicial oversight. Since deportation is a judicial process, POWs are not subject to deportation.
POWs are not "subject to the jurisdiction" of US law; Trump is arguing that the children of "invader-immigrants" can't be citizens.
The term repatriation is not in any way exclusive to POWs. It was, for example, used extensively during COVID when talking about voluntary repatriation of expats to their home countries.
I like how his statement paints not accepting refugees as a negative action
Maybe the US should take back the US members of ISIS that have been left (along with the people from the other nations that joined ISIS) for the Kurds to keep.
Look, I know that immigration is a contentious issue, but sanctioning a country for not repatriating its citizens is a disproportionate response. Trump and Co. are really obsessed with immigration to even do this. It says a lot what values they have.
Are those people really Columbian citizens? I would not put it past Trump to just command ICE to land the next plane full of "somehow latin looking people" somewhere south of the border.
It's a response to make them do it. And it worked. They caved.
Yeah, I just saw the news that Colombia gave in.
Trump is going all in. He's reverting to the 19th century way of strong arming other countries over petty things. He's reviving the old-school capitalist imperialism.
Getting married to a Colombian woman as an America. Is this going to hinder her from getting a marriage visa and coming to America with me?
With all the executive orders he's spewing forth, I wouldn't be surprised if you run into some roadblocks, if only out of confusion on the part of immigration officials. For both your sakes, I hope it isn't too disruptive. Mazel tov!
It's anyone's guess, but Trump's an idiot.
It would be a good idea that Mexico, Columbia and other latin countries promote the Trump Wall, but expelling all US residents in their countries. A wall always works in both directions.
Columbia no like they president?
Trump said it so....
They probably love him.
So his default for Canada is this energy measure?
Go fuck your self trump.