President Petro asks his country to return undocumented Colombians in the US

President Gustavo Petro sent a message in X to undocumented Colombians in the US, who asked them to return to their country and said that their government will grant “productive credits” to those who register in their programs.

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, asked to return “immediately” the undocumented immigrants of his country who are in the United States, to whom he promised aid of his government, days after refusing to receive deportation flights and starring in A FINT IN REDEs with his American counterpart Donald Trump.

“I ask Colombians and Colombians without documents in the US to leave their jobs immediately in that country and return to Colombia as soon as possible,” Petro wrote in the social network X.

The president said in the same publication that the “Department of Social Prosperity, DPS, will seek to deliver productive credits to whom they returned are registered in their programs.”

“Let's build social wealth in Colombia,” Petro concluded on the social network, shortly after publishing a video of a news agency with images of raids against irregular immigrants in the US and deportation operations, with the comment of “the statue of freedom and It does not light “, in an apparent criticism of the US government.

The Colombian president had already compared the actions of the government of President Donald Trump, who has applied a hard hand policy against illegal immigration and promised mass deportations of undocumented, With the processes of the German regime During World War II to deport Jews and other minorities to concentration fields.

Petro's strong criticisms take place after recent diplomatic tension which generated the refusal of the Colombian government to receive deported flights in military airplanes, unleashing the rejection of President Trump and a crossing of mutual threats on imposition of tariffs.

It also caused the Temporary closure of the American Consulate in Bogotá and caused uncertainty among Colombians in the USwho formed long lines of the diplomatic mission of the South American country in Miami to update their documentation in case of a escalation in the disagreement.

Overcome the Impasse, Colombia sent its own airplanes to repatriate its nationals and announced that The US visa service was normalizedalthough the concern remains between those who fear future consequences for the relationship of two traditional allies.