Gustavo Petro said on X that the United States should not treat Colombian migrants as criminals and that he had already turned away U.S. military flights carrying deportees.

Colombia has denied entry to two U.S. military deportation flights, according to officials from the Department of Homeland Security and the Defense Department. The flights, carried out on U.S. military C-17 aircraft, were carrying about 80 Colombian migrants each and had departed from California, the defense official told NBC News.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Sunday he would block US deportation flights until migrants were guaranteed "dignified treatment," escalating a row between Washington and left-wing Latin American governments over US President Donald Trump's migrant crackdown.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said he will deny entry to the United States’s deportation flights as President Trump’s immigration plan begins. “The US cannot treat Colombian

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has announced he will block US deportation flights until migrants are guaranteed “dignified treatment,” escalating a row between Washington and left-wing Latin American governments over US President Donald Trump’s migrant crackdown.

Colombia's President Gustavo Petro will not allow planes from the United States carrying migrants on deportation flights to land in the country, he said in a post on X in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro says that his government won't accept flights carrying migrants deported from the United States until the Trump administration creates a protocol that treats them with “dignity.

Several Latin American leaders have reluctantly accepted some migrant flights in recent days.

Brazil has reacted with outrage after 88 of its nationals arrived in their homeland handcuffed following their deportation from the United States. Brazil blasted Washington over its “degrading

Mexico, Colombia and Brazil are all pushing back on Trump's deportation of migrants in handcuffs or on military planes.

Brazil’s foreign ministry said late on Saturday that it would demand explanations from the US government over the ”degrading treatment” of Brazilians on a deportation flight, while Mexico on Friday also refused such a flight to land in the country.

Colombia on Sunday turned away two U.S. military aircraft with migrants being deported as part of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, a U.S. official said, in at least the second case of a Latin American nation refusing U.