Speaker Johnson Suggests Other Countries Follow Colombia in Offering Presidential Planes for Deportations

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The speaker also discussed the presidentโ€™s proposal to tie Californiaโ€™s wildfire aid with voter ID rule, recent firings of inspectors generals, and FEMA review.

DORAL, Fla.โ€”At a key House GOP conference, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) suggested that other countries might do well to follow Colombiaโ€™s example of sending their presidential planes to pick up illegal aliens detained in the United States.

โ€œWe were happy to send them back,โ€ Johnson told reporters on Jan. 27 at the Trump National Doral Miami, where House Republicans are meeting to discuss a reconciliation package along with other priorities.

The speakerโ€™s message followed a brief but intense exchange between the government of Colombia and the United States over the return of Colombian deportees the United States sought to fly back to their home country.

After Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Colombia had suspended an authorization for a deportation flight, Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on X that he โ€œnever refused to accept migrants,โ€ separately complaining of the mistreatment of illegal aliens being repatriated by the United States.

โ€œIn civilian planes, without being treated like criminals, we will receive our fellow citizens,โ€ Petro said.

President Donald Trump threatened to impose 25 percent tariffs and sanctions on Colombia unless the country agreed to accept the deportee flights, sparking talk of retaliatory tariffs from Colombiaโ€™s president.

Later that day, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt issued a White House statement indicating that Colombia had complied with American demands, adding that proposed tariffs and sanctions โ€œwill be held in reserve, and not signed, unless Colombia fails to honor this agreement.โ€

โ€œTodayโ€™s events make clear to the world that America is respected again,โ€ she said.

Colombian Foreign Minister Gilberto Murillo confirmed that an agreement had been reached, stating that his countryโ€™s presidential plane is โ€œready to facilitate the return of Colombians who were going to arrive in the country this morning on deportation flights.โ€

Johnson, key to a Republican trifecta, characterized the interaction between the two countriesโ€™ leaders as a clear example of U.S. success.

โ€œWhen the president engaged with the president of Colombia about the situation there, Colombia did an about-face,โ€ he said.

Johnson said the Congress would continue to stand by the president on illegal immigration, delivering a message to countries now tasked with accepting their citizens who were unlawfully present in the United States and are being repatriated.

Byย Nathan Worcester

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