IMMIGRATION AS A CENTRAL ISSUE IN THE UNITED STATES

In 2025, Donald Trump is positioned as the president-elect of the United States, being elected for the second time by Americans. However, one of his first orders was to end immigration in the United States, so he began to make decisions in which a certain number of people belonged to our country.

U.S. President Donald Trump celebrated an immigration victory on Monday (Jan. 27, 2025), telling House Republicans gathered at their annual conference in Miami that Colombia "agreed with us almost immediately after I got involved," following a dispute over deportation flights over the weekend that threatened to escalate into a damaging trade war between the two nations.

In his first comments on the mass deportation effort launched under his administration, Trump said, "America is respected again, we are respected again. Isn't it nice, after years of laughing at us like we're stupid? And as you saw yesterday, we've made it clear to all countries that they're going to get our people back, that we're sending criminals and undocumented aliens coming from their countries. We will return them to them."

"We are eliminating them all. I was successful at that, you know," Trump said Monday, praising Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz. "You know you look at people, as you know in Colombia, they agreed with us almost immediately after I got involved."

The Trump administration launched a nationwide immigration enforcement crackdown over the weekend. It involved several federal agencies and resulted in the detention of nearly 1,000 people, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

It's part of President Donald Trump's effort to implement his priorities in his first week in office.

However, this is what happened to those deported to Colombia:

Deportees arriving in Colombia: Colombia's president said the 110 citizens who will be repatriated from the United States are expected to arrive in the country sometime on Monday night (Jan. 27, 2025). They will not be handcuffed when they arrive, President Gustavo Petro said. Colombia today sent an Air Force plane to pick up deported migrants in San Diego, the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported. Colombia reached an agreement with the United States on Sunday to accept deported migrants, following a series of threats from Trump that included hefty tariffs.

Congressional support: House Speaker Mike Johnson made clear he backed Trump's escalating trade war with Colombia over his opposition to migrant repatriation flights. He insisted that countries in South and Central America "must participate" in U.S. efforts to send deported migrants back to their home country. "Every nation in the world needs to hear us loud and clear, this is not a game," Johnson said.