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Trump imposes harsh sanctions on Colombia for not accepting "repatriation" flights

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Sanctions not going through Congress, it's insane that's considered constitutional
- He governs by decrees basically, and so did biden. Its mental gymnastics at olympic level to call the US a democratic country.

I like how his statement paints not accepting refugees as a negative action
- Trump wouldn't recognize hypocrisy if it walked up and kicked him in the balls.
  
  Norman Finkelstein said something the other day, quoting someone else...it was..."hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue". Meaning, evil people understand what they're doing is wrong, that's why they pretend to be good. Hypocrisy is beyond the point to them. They've sacrificed morality. Although I think Finkelstein was saying it in the context of talking about how Republican pols do so much less of even pretending to be good (though certainly not zero).
- Ironically, so does your comment. You mean actively and forcibly ejecting refugees.
  The economic vs. refugee character of the people he ejected is unclear AFAIK, though.
  
  My comment alludes to Trump’s negative opinion of refugees
- What refugees?
  
  What would you call forcibly expatriated people

Then Columbia put 50% tariffs on the US.
Love it.
- Lol. They caved.
  
  The US caved actually, Petro point was that the deportees werent treated like garbage.
  
  Bent the knee.

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.
- So he saw these people were transported like cattle, dehydrated and mistreated, and instead of letting them get off the planes, he's sent them back in those same planes so he can retrieve them with normal planes?
  Unless I am missing something, I feel like you'd want those people to not fly in a plane like that again.
  Either the plane didn't take off in the first place, case in which rejecting it would make sense.
  Or those planes landed in Colombia, then sent back so they can be brought in proper planes, extending the suffering for no reason.
  
  The planes (there were two) landed in Brasil. I don't know if that's where they came from in the first place.
  A note: Usually these people are brought back using normal commercial flights. Only this time they used military planes.

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.
  
  A growing number of Canadians are already calling for exactly that
  
  Do to the US what the US did to cuba? That would be so cruel.
  
  INB4 EU joins BRICS
- He literally is a petulant spoilt brat nappy wearing trust fund kid with unresolved daddy issues.
- New speedrun just dropped:
  Any% screwing up the inland economy
  
  For the sake of the planet I hope he gets a world record
- And threatening sanctions on any country that disagrees too.

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.
- Columbia != Colombia. The real joke though is for those who don't know the difference.
  
  I’d be really surprised if anyone in the administration knows there’s a difference.
- Had me in the first half not gonna lie

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.
- When did you submit the marriage visa? Also congrats! My wife is also Colombian and these last few days have been a fun time
  Edit: I wish I could supply more information directly, but I am still trying to learn the visa processes. A local immigrant lawyer runs a daily Q&A stream if you want to hop in and see if you can get a slot to ask about your situation. Link: Jim Hacking immigration law. Dood is a good guy who doesn't bullshit and gets straight to the point. I hope everything goes well for you and your SO
  
  We are getting married at the notary today so she hasn't applied for it yet! I am here I Colombia with her so sorry for the late reply. Internet is spotty I will look better when I arrive at her house. Thank you!
- Congratulations and commiserations!
- You both are getting rounded up for the next flight lmao
  
  I was born and raised in the deep south brother. Hate to be rude but fuck off.
- It certainty make it easier.

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.
- Holy shit you weren’t kidding.
- As a pedantic lover of the written word, I sense your pain.
  
  Collumnbya
  
  Oy, what you on about

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.

Even after all these years, I physically cringe every time I read "ReTruths"

Man, I’d love to meet the man, just so I could tell him to fuck off and die.
- Or, like a late friend put it: May lightning strike him when he sits on the shitter.
  
  We can only hope.
- A lot of these actually are criminals why should we have to keep them?
  
  It's really simple if you have a basic, or very tiny, ability to think about it for two seconds. Let's see if I can help. Criminals being deported are a huge problem for any receiving county, you see, they often don't have any legal pretext to imprison or arrest them, if they committed crimes in anther nation, it's unlikely the can collect evidence, or call witnesses to a legal process, also, it's quite rare to have laws that apply to actions that occurred outside all legaly boundaries. It's it illegal if an American goes to a county they don't have documentation to be in, then commit crimes outside the US against other people without any way for the US to detect or prove these actions? So if Colombia has an American who kills dozens of people in their country, and is charged and sentanced to life without parole, and then the decide YEARS after the fact to put them on a plane to LAX and throw them off the plane with no other effort, do you want to let that plane land? That's fucking insane. The solution to this problem already exists. Instead of being a fascist stupid fuck, you can create an extradition process where we can accept the Colombian legal process and transfer them ourselves to a US prison without dumping serial killers at an airport on their own.
  Being a threatening authoritarian isn't solving this problem, and thinking every country in the world will simply accept people who have been convicted an sentanced in another nation is fucking stupid. And thinking they can't manage to exist outside US economic good will it's also stupid. If he think burning every ally in Latin America is going to hurt them more than us, he's as dumb as everyone already knows.
  
  We don't actually know what is going on. We had a system that favored protections for people presumed innocent until proven guilty.
  Now Trump is moving so fast with a process that is not transparent and a rhetoric that is hostile and unsympathetic towards all immigrants. People are understandably suspicious that the immigrants were given a fair chance to defend their legal presence in the USA.
  Shit, I won't be surprised when legal us born citizens get deported in a mix up.
  
  Stop using that label as an excuse to treat people as subhuman.
  The state is rounding up people en masse and shipping them off to a foreign country. This process took a week. Due process is not present. This is some straight-up Nazi shit, and if you can't at least mutter "fuck that," then please shut up.
  
  actually are criminals
  Where was this disdain for criminals at voting time?
  
  Yeah, why shouldn't we send all Republicans to another country? Or how about those criminals guilty of being Jewish, or black, or gay? Or how about the crime of "looking too Mexican," like the US did to US citizens during Operations Wetback 1 & 2.
  Also, love how you even say "some of them are criminals," not all of them. Meaning that you're okay with gathering up some amount of innocent people and sending them to a different country with nothing more than the clothes on their backs.
  
  Basically nobody opposes deporting actual criminals (not political crimes). The problem is that it isn't the cartel members and bank robbers who get rounded up when a factory is raided. And the mother fleeing persecution is treated the same as the drug kingpin.
  
  Because we're not entitled to force some other country to take them!
  WTF did you think the answer was‽
  
  Ah yes, because criminals are subhumans who should be exterminated like the cockroaches they are. And if we can't take the trash out back like we should we can at least make it not our problem and make sure the cockroaches aren't in our backyard. That's what you're saying right?

Viva Colombia

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.
  
  You're behind the news. Colombia caved within minutes. No tariffs. The idea was to push them to take their citizens back, and it worked.

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.
- Well you see, we have long and storied history of fucking over the Kurds. You wouldn't want to tarnish that record would you?

To be clear, Colombia already backed down and accepted all the demands. Which is unfortunate but not surprising. Starting to get "Just give Hitler what he wants and he'll stop" vibes. Surprised folks didn't learn their lesson...
- I was waiting for the backfire of “look what happened to coffee prices!”

"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.
  
  True. I should have been more clear: Deportation requires the involvement of the judicial branch. Repatriation has no such requirement. "Repatriation" is a more generic term for returning to one's country of origin.
  I did not mean to suggest that "repatriation" was exclusive to POWs, and I apologize if I gave that impression. I meant to distinguish between judicial and non-judicial.
- POWs are not entitled to access to the criminal justice system.
  That's... Not true.
  
  POWs do not need to be charged with a crime. Indeed, under international treaties and laws governing armed conflict, POWs generally can't be criminally charged for simply participating in hostilities.
  They can be held without charge until the conclusion of hostilities. They are not entitled to the protections afforded to the accused, because they are not accused. They are not entitled to access to the criminal justice system.
  By describing them as "invaders", he is suggesting that immigrants be treated as enemy combatants.

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.
- He does that to strongarm companies into complying, because it works. It's also setting an example for other countries to cooperate.
  
  I suppose, but we're talking about international diplomacy. And a modern one at that.
  Trump's strong arming sounds so 19th century though. His open threat of taking Panama canal, Canada, Greenland, and renaming the Gulf of Mexico is so manifest destiny.
- You expect "reasonable" from the orange idiot?

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%.
  
  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.
  
  Coffee is already getting more expensive, I'm assuming everywhere :/
  
  And 50% more later on :)
- Kind of glad I panic-bought ground Columbian coffee and froze it. Not that that's great, but better than nothing.
  
  But why would you buy ground? A grinder is like $10. You can grind 3-4 days at a time if you don't like cleaning.
- Colombian
- y cocaina amigo.
  
  Ooo boy Don Jrs gonna have a hard time with this one
- Nope, Colombia caved within minutes.

illegal Criminals
- As opposed to the legal kind.
  
  He's the president of the United States
  
  E.g. donald trump, or are you disagree that he is a legal criminal, according to his sentence. Like, a criminal yes, but we don’t judge you, because clearly not everyone is the same in front of the law, apparently.
  
  That would be Wall Street

Ho ho ho. Trump does not hold the cards here. Colombia DNGAF. But Trump does, and he's digging that hole as fast as he can.

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.

He didn't quite stick the landing on his "destroy the US empire" speedrun last term, but he wasn't idle over the last 4 years and has come out the gate with a strong strategy this time around!
- How does this destroy the US empire? It worked, Colombia caved within minutes.
  
  Not by itself, but it’s representative of his overreaction to every little perceived slight against him. Correct me if I’m wrong; it’s standard to send and receive civilian planes for returning migrants. Colombia does not want its citizens being treated like criminals, detained aboard military aircraft. US media is declaring victory for Trump on a technicality. If this is all it takes for him to completely fill his diaper, he’s going to drone strike the first country to follow through with retaliatory tariffs.

Clown gonna clown

New article say Columbia let planes in. Short no.

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