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Score one for Trump’s tariff threat tactic, as Colombia caves on deportation flights

AN UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER: A short-lived standoff with the government of Colombia over the acceptance of U.S. military flights carrying deported immigrants ended last night after President Donald Trump threatened the South American country with visa restrictions and initial 25% tariffs before Colombian President Gustavo Petro caved.

“The government of Colombia has agreed to all of President Trump’s terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens from Colombia returned from the United States, including on U.S. military aircraft, without limitation or delay,” the White House said in a statement from press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who noted the tariff will be held “in reserve” while the visa restrictions would remain “until the first planeload of Colombian deportees is successfully returned.”

“Today’s events make clear to the world that America is respected again,” Leavitt said.

The Colombia capitulation is just the opening salvo in Trump’s plan to use the might of America’s economy, and the threat of crippling trade wars as his primary weapon to bend both allies and adversaries to his will. Trump often waxes rhapsodically about the power of tariffs and claims they could replace income taxes as the primary source of revenue. “I’m a believer in tariffs,” he said last October in remarks to the Economic Club of Chicago. “To me, it’s the most