Daniel Oquendo, 33, remembers well the first words US border agents told him after he crossed the US-Mexico border on0.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro agrees to receive undocumented migrants as President Donald Trump steps up deportation efforts. Mr. Petro initially rejected two groups of migrants sent to Colombia because they were not treated with “dignity.

Colombia said they would accept deportation flights carrying Colombian migrants after the Trump administration threatened to impose tariffs.

Colombia isn’t the first nation to have materially countered Trump’s deportation plans. Still, its tiff with the U.S. is indicative of some lesser-known trade entanglements between North and South America—and of the potential for the Trump administration to hurt Americans’ pocketbooks in its craven pursuit of mass deportations.

When Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, refused military planes carrying deportees, infuriating President Trump, he revealed how heated the question of deportations has become.

In his first week back in the Oval Office, Trump has quickly torn up his predecessor’s alliance-driven foreign policy in favor of an even more rambunctious 2.0 version of “America First.” His provocations have raised tensions with key allies on multiple continents — and set up showdowns with other leaders that,