they use us as simulation objects for they have technology that's condense so around the globe, very, very sophisticated a i can collect them cube the palestine, the bar 3 point one on that. just an explosive, diplomatic val, between the us and columbia over the deforestation of on the with wise immigrants on military plains, its main quickly the fuse for now for further action to be made. what does the city known about the muse, donald trump presidency? this is inside story, the hello and welcome to the program. i'm elizabeth put on a route that blew up almost as suddenly as it ended columbia and president, the style of petro, y'all came home with his us counterpart, donald trump,

the full backing down off the u. s, military plains carrying deported. colombians with bod, from landing by petro trunk, reactive swiftly with terrorists and sanctions. retaliatory measures were announced by columbia before and a pound, climbed down by president petro deportation. flights with military plains to be allowed in with columbia promising dignified conditions for those on board. the speed of the escalation of hostilities between the 2, our allies have surprised many. that's the spot for my left to school, rid of petro being at the other end of the political spectrum from trump. so what's to be learned from this episode about the new trump administration and how it plans to do business and what might be the impact on undocumented immigrants and these you, wes, as well as the countries of origin. we'll discuss all this without paddle of guess shortly, but 1st this report from michael soon shed east the us. preston don't need some claims victory in

a standoff with columbia or with tablets and migration. the white house says the colombian government has agreed to receive flights, getting migraines, to bolted from the united states. it comes off to from trenton to pose sweeping tightest on all goods from the country. it will go to the columbia in for my columbia. as government has resolved its impasse for the government of the united states, we will continue to receive colombians that return as deep ortiz ensuring dignified conditions for them as citizens with the right side on the stand up again of to columbia, in preston, gustavo federal refuse to allow to us ministry at croft, kevin default, and mike burns to land. in boca time, trump retaliated by threatening to play sweeping tablets on own goods from one of the reps as close as allies in south america. he also threatened to impose restrictions on visas within us. the 2 leaders engaged in 2 foot tap measures

through social media. it left many people watered in a country that counts us as its biggest trade partner. see the by you think they failed to pull to that must be received it because this is the country it to come to your own country. how can you not be accepted? it's not logical, i suppose, indicating on a single papers, unless mister petro is each to think with a cool head out ideologically. but regarding what space for our country, i think he needs to think more to preserve, protect, and defend. the showdown came less than a week and took from 2nd time. in his 1st day, he signed more than 200 executive orders, including declaring a national emergency on the southern border and ordering the military to help detain and phone support migrants. decision to action, his election campaign promise to condo, non illegal immigration, but most of the patients has left to buildings and homes being rated and migrants

arrested in separate american cities. that's raising tensions with latin american countries. places. so for region, for up to 14000000, undocumented microns in the us consumption these obviously the inside story the. well, let's forget, i guess in washington dc, is nile standards. a political analyst and white house calling us for the hill newspaper. and bulletin columbia is, says you guzman, the director of colombia risk analysis, that's a political consultancy, and an alexandria virginia is rachel schmidt, to k, the senior advocate for latin america at refugees international, a very warm welcome to all of you. as soon as you, i'll start with you in bold as to why the stunning turnaround from president petra, who went from saying to trump on twitter, or you'll be ok. doesn't scan the to as the white house, pushing it,

accepting difficulties, even those arriving on us with a tree across without limitation or delay. do well, and 1st of all, thank you for hobby. i think president federal made a rash decision at 3 am on twitter, 2 not receive a deportation flight. breaking with president that's put on the album. she'd be protection flight signature. you says, however, president federal has decided alongside other law meters to try to be much more forceful about the thing of the people that are being deported and are being treated as they are by the united states customs enforcement agency. i have to say, however, i think the president federal miscalculated tuchi, how the truck would react, because tom and the white house issued very stern set of measures against going beyond that would be completely detrimental to our economy. so the miscalculation

was a huge gamble and it didn't pay off. and so petra was brought to the table by the trumpet, ministration, the talk in a position of relative weakness. and now these are the consequences. for pictures. brazen response. i don't see as a miscalculation because the us as columbia, as largest trading partner, of course. so you are just a quick question. what you're saying when you say that columbia has accepted deportation flights before, has it accepted deportation flights on military planes? because that seems to be the that seem to be the issue here for president petra, or during the last 3 years. the president, petra's inefficient pullover, has accepted nearly $17000.00 deportees in the, in the previous year, up to the, you know, in january almost $24.00 deportation flights of taking place, mostly on ice plains, right? and so the use of military aircraft is, is a different, different issue,

but it doesn't change. in fact, these are colombians and by right, they should be welcomed in their own. okay, now the white house put out a statement saying, today's events make clear to the world that america is respected again. do you think that that's the message that the us was trying to send to the world and how, what do you think the message the world is guessing from what unfolded? the trunk administration is certainly trying to send a message off. strang, son of our willingness to flex american muscle in respect of immigration and respect all everything else. and so this is a victory for president trump. i don't think there's any doubt about that. the lessons that the rest of the world will take from what i think could be a little more mix. i look, i think president, petro has done really significant damage to the general spectrum of nation. should we have issues or resistance are problems with president trump's

policies. because petro, by striking this very strong pose, and then folding within about 6, ours has just made up the less credible when other nations seek to resist prism trump's urgings in these ways. so i think it knocked respect. it adds to trump's momentum, but also the roads, the resistance to his wishes from, from other nations because it looks so ridiculous on petrified. rachel, and one of his tweets before backing down, petro spoke of the need to treat the 40s with dignity, and who shed a video of a brazilian d. 40 is being sent back to the country with their hands and the feet, restrain, and supposedly having being treated badly on the fly to not being allowed to use the toilet. i mean, does the columbia and president have a point? what is your assessment of how these difficulties have been treated in the last

week? yeah, i think the use of military planes takes the situation where the parties already have not been always treated the best. you know, i've encountered deportees under the bi and, and the trump administration who then, you know, shuffled at the hands and the 2 haven't been allowed to use the bathroom on the plans, etc. but putting them in cargo planes sort of accelerates this dehumanization of, of migrants, you know, treating them as if they were violent criminals, which we don't have any proof of. that's the case. i think it's sort of a, a pastry that, that these people are dangerous in some way and that, you know, america has the sort of a right to exert its military might, and in other facets beyond the military and places like migration, which i don't think is necessary and also i think the means and, and, and reduces the humanity of people who maybe their only crime, quote, unquote was crossing a border. and in fact, i want to ask you about the point that,

you know, trump said that he wants columbia to take back these criminals into what has actually said, trump expects all other nations to fully cooperate and accepting the deforestation of this citizens illegally present in the us, do we know about the makeup of the difficulties on the flight since trump took office? you know, do they include? do we notice they include people like asylum seekers, for example? who might have been to the us and legally, but have a right to seek asylum regardless of how they anted. it's a great question. i think at this point, we don't know the makeup, but it is very concerning and very true at this point that many people who entered legally under programs under the bite and most ration for example, um, are now subject to deportation even though they follow the correct procedures, you know, i've, and i've interviewed colombians who passed through the dairy and gap all the way through central america to get to mexico. they use the cbp one application as they were told they entered through a c h and the parole program that was legally a pathway that was available to them at the time. and now they're scared they're

about to be deported. and then i think that is a true, fearful tactic for people who, who quote, unquote, did that the right way. i think that that's the point i want to emphasize is that there's not only a threat to a legal or an authorized immigration, but there's also now for to people who entered in a manner that was legal. and so that is very concerning a not, that is absolutely something we've seen isn't it. and the 1st week of the executive actions taken on integration, it's not just the crack down on and legal integration. it's a crack down on pathways to enter the us legally, including ending things like the refugee resettlement program. how would you describe those actions and what is the trump administration trying to do? a specialist actions from an administration with believes and a restriction of st. paul. so now i think we do, we have to say in fairness, the immigration was perhaps the single strongest issue for president trump in

november's election. it was a real vulnerability for democrats that they were perceived as, as less restriction. most certainly, the southern border of the united states on authorized crossings reached their highest point in decades if not ever about a year ago. they have fallen since them. but look, i think that the issue that you mentioned over the end of the refugee, the chef on program goals, point to the issue that rachel raised up by the, the generalized reluctance or resistance to permit to migrate just generally now i of course, trust them. trump appears to help us of different view, a whole the classic style of, of migration that is fully legal under employment fees, as for example. but when it comes to refugees, asylum seekers. and of course, people who are just so hard on authorized migrants, he has a very, very different viewed and virtual coming back to you because we are talking about the refugee resettlement program that has been suspended indefinitely. and so many

refugees who have been, you know, who have gone through the very long investing process and have been waiting some times for years, including those that have gone us down. who, assistant, the us military have had their travel plans suspended or even canceled? does isn't the us a signatory to the refugee convention and does it have obligations? yes, the short answer is yes. the us is party to the 1951 convention. and so it does have international obligations as well as the right to seek asylum is trying to, in our domestic laws as well. and so, and i think from a moral perspective, we are a very wealthy prosperous nation that was founded on immigrants. and i think that people who have fled violence as stipulated in the, in the convention, should have a right to see protection elsewhere. and the united states has absolutely the resources. and i think the responsibility to do that, especially when we look at other countries in the region like columbia that have

over 2000000, then as far ones that they've received, that's much larger. and columbia has much less resources, not much less, but less resources in the united states to do so, and they're doing it. and so i think that the united states, we could learn a lot from our latin american neighbors in terms of what it means to actually welcome people. yeah, in columbia and on documented mind going from columbia actually make up as a raw the small number of the undocumented my friends from last in america in the u . s. a says you or does tom's move? do you think to impose sanctions when columbia refused the military flies? does it show just how he sees to have as an economic with and you know, to use against governments that aren't going to play a part in his geo political goals? and i think the trump administration's tactics, i've always been to impose maximum pressure on adversaries, regardless of them, be friends or phones to try to extract the concession. and in this regard,

petros acknowledgement of the terms that the us laid out is basically giving him the opportunities to do so in the future. so i think petra's lackluster and lack of cusick vision, he could have, you know, his meetings a lot, the locked in american group of countries on thursday, and they're coming up with a joint policy to address the. so i think this dispute is far from over. i think trump has one the 1st from clearly, but i also anticipate there could be a lot of friction between nothing american countries in the united states over the years come yeah, absolutely. that is something that we're going to be watching very closely. nile. it's future sanctions lead to say hi or prices for us. consumers then will the american public object do you think, will they be willing to tolerate some financial pain to advance trumps immigration policies? and i think there are 3 separate issues to keep disentangle their wellness trunk

proport. i'd love for tariffs which almost. busy economists consider potentially inflation rate on whoever he imposes those type of so on. there is the chance that those will lead to rising prices. and voters, i think, would react very negatively to that. but that elizabeth has a separate issue from his argument and his allies arguments that he sometimes threatens tire ups as a negotiating tactic. it appears to have worked very effectively in this case whether one likes it or not. and so the idea of, of using the throughout of tyler as a weapon to force other governments to change their policy. i think that is something that a significant number of americans would back actually. and also just wary of us getting into a situation where we underestimate the degree to which the american population has shifted somewhat to the right on immigration,

even within my 20 years or so in this country, the fee for the more restriction of policies of mr. trump, welch and rachel, why is that? because as now said himself earlier, the spies, the number of crossings having peaks during the trump administration. they did come down after the, the, off to the bite and administration, you know, impose restrictions on asylum in the last month that bite and was president in december 2024. that was 47300 migrant and count as in the last month of trumps for us to illegal crossings. habit around $71000.00. so why is it that that's not something that affects the public sentiment. i am, i think that the all is right in that there has been a shift on our thoughts on immigration. and i think there's also somewhat of a disconnect between what we see a people arriving to the southern border and immigrants that we may see in our

communities. who are business owners and contributing in many different ways, not only for their labor but through their heritage. and culture and personal connections, the people that are arriving at the southern border to seek asylum will eventually become the people that we consider our neighbors. but i think that the american people have been sold a sort of building this idea of immigration through much of trump's rhetoric and scapegoating them as the problem for some of our economic was. and i think that that's misguided but it is a very pervasive and powerful idea. and i think that those of us like myself or if you just international, are going to have to work very hard to show that immigrants are extremely a huge benefit to our communities. again, not only for their labor, as i said, but through their ability to, to contribute to our communities and so many different ways and losing that is not only a material loss for our country and economic loss for our country, but also a cultural and moral loss for our country as well. and so,

as you are when latin american countries meet to figure out how to deal with this trump administration going forward, especially on immigration, do you think that the administration is interested in working with its neighbors on this issue beyond cracking down on the immigrants at the border and carrying out deportations. and i think unfortunately they're very short sighted about how to achieve success in terms of integration. then i think the bite and administration took on much more long term view of integration. say, you know, if there is development in countries in latin america, there will not be as much immigration to the united states. whereas trump says, we need to project on the board or we need to close the border and we need to threaten with, you know, uh, economic terrorist or, or huge in positions that will, in turn exacerbate the economic walls of each of those countries and produced more migrants going to the united states, and so i think in a way, they're not me,

neither petro nor trump are thinking about this, strategically, much to the detriment of a lot of real relationships, taking decades to, to strengthen decades to, to harden. and right now is a quiz and knowledge to anyone. and the trump administration. do you think is looking at this issue strategically has pick for deputy secretary of state, for example, kristof alondo, he's long argued that working with other countries to stop what he calls such migratory flows, that they must be a global imperative for us foreign policy. but do such spats, do they make working together more difficult? and i think that there are people who in the truck administration look at this issue strategically. they just have a different strategy from the one that you just i tried. i mean, there are people like steven miller, for example, a very senior for a close age to donald trump, who has an extremely hawkish position on immigration,

on how it's done for years and years and years of the strategy. so far as he is concerned is to you essentially come as close to your time as close to closing the border or with the exception of the legal immigration most helps the united states economy directly. so there is a separate argument to be made, of course, about the broader strategy regarding pauses of emigration, part of the re, drivers of immigration, especially for mexico and latin america. of course, those arguments can be made. but the idea that there was arguments get a significant hearing in the trump administration or tardy and a real weight on the front put ministration, i think is a follow say i, i don't think they do at all. i think it's a much more my god, america 1st build the wall mentality that i'm h, the trump administration on this topic and says you are dial mentioned mexico, mexico. it's been reported that mexico refused a request last week to let

a us military a cough land with migraines, trade between columbia and the us as a tiny fraction of the trade between the us and mexico. could we see trump has long weapon to impose tariff even of 25 percent on mexico? he even mentioned february 1st as a possible days. i think that's this weekend. do you think that we could see trump go ahead with such tyrants on mexico? if it doesn't support his policies at the border as well, i say trump is not oblivious to the fact that mexico lays mexico and canada both play a huge role in the us economy as price setters right in that we'll have, as they all said before, a huge inflationary effect on the american consumer. and so i think trump wants to curtail that specifically. but at the same time, columbia was such a soft target, one that was very exemplary one that was very easy to use without effecting the american consumer as much. and trump use of leverage,

he took advantage of that opportunity, much of the detriment of the bladder race. let's hope that doesn't happen in canada and mexico as well. and rachel, again, with so many on documented migrants up to 14000000 in the united states from last in america. you know, what does this incident tell us about how latin american countries about what they're expecting from this administration? and in fact, what the people from those countries are expecting i think many are bracing for the possibility of increased deportation. and you know, mexico strategy has been to start preparing for mexicans to return, you know, with a new program called mexico for that. but i saw next go hugs, new mexico and braces you. and so i think many countries are, are, are bracing for that likely enough that ability. but i also think that there is going to be a negative impact on many communities that have sent migraines to the united states

because they were live very directly on remittances. and in many cases, those remittances allow people to, you know, go to school, pay for health care homes. and so there's actually doesn't, this is actually keep people in many cases for migrating. and so i think local communities may also have bill to the effect and may be worried about what the loss of that huge economic bood might be for their welfare and well being in their home countries as well. and says you dispatch as we've been reporting is over for now, the petro is now going to be hot headed, as we mentioned, the other end of the political spectrum to donald trump, candace long standing relationship between the us and columbia. what are you expecting from the next 4 years? i think for one, petro is going to begin looking at the birds flying on. yes, stead of the lines. we've talked about petra strategic ambiguity with other countries. but now we saw, for instance, yesterday, the chinese in basset to columbia and the russian and boston columbia,

both pouting the benefits of joining the bricks as, as, as an alliance and columbia, as to is on the break of doing that. and this might just push us over the edge unfortunately. so now does trump the leave in allies? does it worry him that this relationship with colombia might be strained or that colombia might see close the ties with russia or china as a result of this? if any allies, the closer ties with the us is traditional photos and the only thing she comes, he is concerned about the allies ships and the normal fashion that we have expected of american president from both parties. we will id off america 1st and a more go off alone attitude speaks to that. no, he dollars get irritated, i would say by the expanding sphere of influence of china in particular some of his arguments, for example, the idea of buying by your trying to force the buyback of the panama canal that's about trying to react her chinese influence. so i think to that extent t chairs,

i just want to briefly return very briefly to what i think is really important. important here, which is the present petrow here, has done an enormous disturbance to what we might totally international resistance against prism trumping his measures by trying to play tough by us. we said here, bringing a knife to a gunfight, flowing the shapes and then back in down within hours now has put enormous wind and trump sales on has really fun for those who would seek to make a more modulated version of the same market. or if we would have to end the discussion on that very important point. thank you to own of, i guess now stands in washington, dc, says you guzman and bull's eye, and rachel schmidt's kate in alexandria, virginia, and thank you to, for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website out to 0 dot com. as i said, the discussion do go to

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