Under international law, countries are obligated to receive their own citizens who are deported by another country. But in practice, there are often ways to push back. Countries can block deportation flights from landing, decline to issue travel documents to their citizens and refuse to acknowledge that the deportees are their citizens.

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The Liberal Party of Colombia is distancing itself from the government of President Gustavo Petro after the national leader was forced to back down in his feud with the U.S. government. Partido Liberal announced Tuesday the decision to withdraw support for Petro’s government after two years of unsteady alliance with the current coalition,

President Donald Trump boasted about America's strength and said that Colombia accepted to take deportees' flights and apologised after he threatened heavy sanctions. Trump said, "we may have tough talk from others,