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5. you don't need CNN to misinform you on this
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 07:54 PM
Jan 28

...you can discern the facts they neglected to report to you from what I've taken time to put in my post.

CNN is distorting the facts here, and doesn't contradict anything I wrote at all.

Colombia has ALWAYS accepted deported refugees, so touting the return to transports is misinformation.

The fact that they allowed the U.S. to resume those returns, that have been going on for DECADES through successive presidencies both republican and Democratic, isn't a concession by Colombia.

It's a return to status quo, before Trump decided to fly them back in handcuffs on military transport, so this is actually a case of the Trump administration backing down from their counterproductive policy.

The returnees are now being transported back to their country on Colombian presidential planes, instead.

AND Trump backed down from his threat of tariffs, which would not only harm U.S. consumers, but imperil the migrant returns and spark a trade war which would do nothing to help bring down the grocery prices he promised to fix on day one.

Keep up. What CNN bothers to write in their articles isn't there to either confront Trump, or to present his malfeasance as the threat to Americans that it actually represents in promise and practice.

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