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"The U.S. cannot treat Colombian migrants as criminals," Petro wrote. Petro said even though there were 15,660 Americans without legal immigration status in Colombia, he would never carry out a raid to return handcuffed Americans to the United States. "We are the opposite of the Nazis," he wrote, in a jab at Trump. Mexico also refused a request last week to let a U.S. military aircraft land with migrants.

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[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

Columbia imposed 50% tarrifs on all US goods.

[-] blakenong@lemmings.world 13 points 2 months ago

What goods do we export to Columbia?

[-] TheObviousSolution@kbin.melroy.org 44 points 2 months ago

A lot of technology goods. Which basically means China, which was already doing a lot of their manufacture, wins out. China is going to be moving all in on the US international market as it continues to ramp up this way, and the US will be left increasingly alone when it is eventually forced to aid Taiwan in its defense.

[-] Ashelyn 27 points 2 months ago

The cherry on top is Trump rescinding the CHIPS act which was supposed to bring more silicon electronics manufacturing to the US, meant to make our microchip supply more resilient. Not only is it cutting off one's nose to spite one's face, it's also shooting ourselves in the foot (and then blaming Woke when the obvious consequences come knocking home).

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