President Donald Trump has already forced Colombia to accept deportees by threatening tariffs and is readying the same move against Canada and Mexico as soon as Saturday

Daniel Oquendo, 33, remembers well the first words US border agents told him after he crossed the US-Mexico border on0.

The Trump administration's use of U.S. military aircraft to return deportees has raised alarms throughout Latin America.

Colombia has walked back from the brink of a damaging trade war with the United States, reaching an agreement on accepting deported migrants being returned on military planes, after a flurry of threats from President Donald Trump that included steep tariffs.

U.S. President Trump said that his administration could impose a 25% tariff on Mexican exports. But will he actually act on his threat?

Donald Trump's plan for mass deportations of migrants from the United States is encountering its first obstacles. Colombia is the latest country to announce it will not accept planes with deportees. Earlier,

President Donald Trump posted threats against Colombia on his social media platform on Sunday after two U.S. military repatriation flights were prevented from landing.

Following his inauguration, Trump imposed a Feb. 1 deadline for both countries to begin complying with his border and immigration policies or risk the tariffs.

The United States and Colombia, long close partners in anti-narcotics efforts, clashed Sunday over the deportation of migrants and imposed tariffs on each other’s goods in a show of what

Join the club. Washington is playing the waiting game as Feb. 1 nears. By our complex calculations, that’s Saturday, and it’s the date Trump has teased for when Mexico and Canada – two of America’s largest trading partners – will be slapped with 25% tariffs. (China, meanwhile, could get a 10% levy.)

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Trump’s tariff orders and sanctions would be “held in reserve and not signed” on Jan. 26, as long as Colombian migrants returned to their country. However, visa restrictions on Colombian officials and enhanced inspections would remain in place until Colombian deportees were returned.