Colombian President Gustavo Petro compared the policies of American president Donald Trump to immigrants with “fascist practices”, stressing that Trump considers each immigrant as “a criminal”.
In an interview with a private television channel, Petro criticized the “severe treatment” to which immigrants are exposed in America, which indicates that the question “is no longer linked to asking yourself whether or not you have documents, but Rather, they look at your face and if you cannot pass the perspiration test with a single look, you are attacked.
When he was asked if Trump described as “fascist”, Petro replied: “This policy, which criminalizes population groups to win majority support, is exactly what Hitler did in 1933 when he won The support of his people by targeting the Jews and the socialists.
The Colombian President, 64, compared the expulsion of irregular immigrants from the United States to the methods practiced in “detention camps” in Nazi Germany, by continuing the tension between Petro and Trump for a while due to policies from the latter to immigrants and expel them.
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Trump announced the imposition of a series of sanctions in Colombia on Sunday before it retracts it, in an escalation of tension after Bogota’s decision to return American military aircraft with immigrants to the United States.
In the same evening, Bogota announced that the crisis was “overcome” with the United States, and Washington withdrew his threat of imposing customs tasks of 25% on all the Colombian goods who enter and double the United States after A week if necessary.
Washington stressed that the Colombian government had accepted all of its conditions, “in particular by accepting without the restrictions of all irregular foreigners in the United States, including on American military aircraft, without delay.”