Summary
Colombian President Gustavo Petro urged undocumented Colombian workers in the U.S. to leave their jobs and return home, promising government loans for business startups.
His call follows a diplomatic clash with Donald Trump over U.S. deportation policies, including Petro’s temporary refusal to accept deportation flights.
The dispute nearly led to a trade conflict before both sides reached a truce.
Colombia has accepted 475 deportation flights since 2020, ranking fifth among Latin American nations receiving U.S. deportees.
I don’t know much about the US, but living in Russia I can say, that our thriving construction business that pockets everyone depends on foreign labor with no rights living in train containers behind concrete walls surrounding the soon-to-rise building. There’s a whole infrastructure of immigrants earning some there and then getting back to live with their family in a jobless, empoverished land. Big business wants depndent, isolated, cheap workforce, and it’s all not overlooked, but orchestrated by our services for a % in their profits.