One plane, flying from San Diego, California, brought home 110 Colombians and the other, which departed from El Paso, Texas, brought home 91, the Colombian Foreign Ministry said on X.
Daniel Oquendo, 33, remembers well the first words US border agents told him after he crossed the US-Mexico border on0.
The Colombian air force has flown deportees from San Diego to Bogota, marking a resolution in a dispute between the U.S. and Colombia over deportation flights. The agreement, achieved through diplomatic negotiations,
Colombia's Foreign Affairs Ministry said the government was sending a Colombian Air Force plane to San Diego to pick up a group of Colombians who were on a deportation flight that was not allowed to land on Sunday morning.
A Colombian Air Force plane landed in Bogota with 105 Colombian nationals deported from the United States, marking the third flight of its kind this week, the Colombian Foreign Ministry said.
Mr Trump had threatened to impose tariffs on Colombian goods after its president refused to let deportation planes land. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Repatriation flights began landing in Colombia Tuesday after President Donald Trump successfully strong-armed the country into accepting their deportees again.
Two Colombian military planes with some 200 nationals expelled from the United States arrived in Bogota on Tuesday after a blazing row with Donald Trump over migrant deportations, the South American country's president said.
The U.S. and Colombia pulled back from the brink of a trade war on Sunday after the White House said the South American nation had agreed to accept military aircraft from San Diego carrying deported migrants.
The diplomatic drama that began over the weekend provided clues on how Trump would deal with countries standing in the way of his immigration policies.
BOGOTA (Reuters) - The first of two Colombian air force planes carrying people who were deported from the United States arrived in Bogota early on Tuesday, local media said, paving the way for U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to lift visa restrictions and other measures on Colombian citizens.
Another Colombian air force plane carrying deportees from San Diego, California has arrived in Bogota, the Col