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Imagine someone telling you to just let them in your home. \n\nI pray more people understand that it is not that Americans don’t want to help, it’s just we need to help ourselves and our families first. We have huge issues within and we can not be flooded with more problems.

I pray for these people, they need to understand they need papers to be legal here in the US and i hope they do, I'm sorry, no more illegal migrants I'm not racist everybody deserves a second chance in this life but The Right WAY! They are welcome. But come on do it right

People will look back at this crazy, crap, and fully understand why Donald Trump became president.?

As someone who has done the immigration process legally, and know of people who have done it legally, I think it’s unfair that these illegal migrants can just come while I and those who done the process right had to pay a lot of money and wait a long time. People who are against this why don’t you understand? I have family who in their own country had to wait a LONG time for a visa just to visit the US and pay a lot too. I’m grateful for that Trump came into the office

As someone who has done the immigration process legally, and know of people who have done it legally, I think it’s unfair that these illegal migrants can just come while I and those who done the process right had to pay a lot of money and wait a long time. People who are against this why don’t you understand? I have family who in their own country had to wait a LONG time for a visa just to visit the US and pay a lot too. I’m grateful for that Trump came into the office

I hate trump supporters and the president right now because they got rid of the law that protected black people. I do not understand why almost every white people would hate people's skin. I hate that they are trying to recreate World War 2. Please veto Trump because he is doing the wrong thing. He even made another law that if you catch a person that crossed the border, they get 1,000 thousand dollars. Trump shouldn't be president because of the bad things now he has done. Tiktok is banned because of him.

I do not understand why they don’t go back and fix their own country instead of all this chaos. Who wants people like that in our country anyway?

These people must not understand that you cannot come in and take over. It's going to get ugly

I understand wanting your people to have dignity, but I’m not sure if the Columbian presidential plane is the best way, the best way to provide dignity for your people is to create a country where they don’t have to leave, where there is opportunity, where there is safety and true equality, when we leave our home countries it’s because our leaders have failed us: I hope this is resolved peacefully.

can someone tell me this is not invasion? please help me understand. If a group of people trying to jump the fence to get into your house, would you stop them?

It's not scary to have a trade embargo. Columbia? Idon't understand how they have a person on CNN trying to convince people that Latin American country is better than the United States. There is no Latin American country better than the United States.

But one thing I don’t understand , sorry my economics wasn’t good at school , if a country increases tariffs on imports coming to its own people, would it decrease consumer prices to its own people ? Please lecture me here .

Hey mayor. These people are criminals. They entered our country illegally. What part of that is so hard for democrats to understand?

So let me make sure I understand! We, the US people, will be paying 25% more for all products coming in from Columbia. No one in Columbia will pay extra. This would essentially slow down products coming in from Columbia or any other country. The US people pay for this. It could or will change the behavior of these countries, but WE pay for this!!!

Evil men make it difficult by complicating and twisting truth leaving deception and men confused deception makes it difficult because people are left confused to understand  but the wise will understand to discern the wolves at the gates who seek harm to the sheep we have real Islamic jihad enemies who make things difficult by being a thorn to the way to life bringing destruction upon their own selves

Evil men make it difficult by complicating and twisting truth leaving deception and men confused deception makes it difficult because people are left confused to understand  but the wise will understand to discern the wolves at the gates who seek harm to the sheep we have real Islamic jihad enemies who make things difficult by being a thorn to the way to life bringing destruction upon their own selves

I don't understand the point the Colombian president was trying to make. It doesn't matter what kind of planes are used to transport them, those people broke the law and their actions are costing American tax payers thousands of dollars. Why did it take tariffs for him to offer his own plane?

Why dont people understand that we are on the ass end of tariffs. The American consumer pays in the end.

It's extraordinary to me that people still do not understand that a tariff is paid by the consumer in the country that imposed it. In this case it's the usa consumer paying and not Colombian consumers. The Bonespur must have a different definition of tariff.

Colombia's President said >>>> Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighbourhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together. \n \nI confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller \n \nI confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country \n \nI don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian. \n \nSo if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last. \n \nYou will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom. \n \nYou don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid. \n \nThey are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else. \n \nOverthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond. \n \nColombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs. \n \nMy land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete. \n \nYou will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us. \n \nOur people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered. \n \nI raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA, \n \nYour blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness. \n \nFROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY. \n \nI am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same. \n \nLet our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world \n \n1:15 PM · Jan 26, 2025 ·11.1M Views

And this is the part where colombia will retaliate by dropping the Petro dollar. People have to understand the US is on thin Ice for using what was supposed to be a fair tradeable currency and one of the reasons why many countries adapted it in the 50s but since we have been weaponizing it expect Nations to drop the dollar to minimized the US influence in what is supposed to be an open international market.

CNN needs to understand the three most important things people voted for Trump has been doing everything he said.\nImmigration, DEI , girls sports.\nNo matter what happens from now until the end he has already accomplished what is important.

This is too funny ?. Just keep issuing even more tariffs is only going to come back to bite us in the butt to us consumers. We get a lot of imported goods from other countries, the costs for us to purchase everyday things you enjoy is going to go up as well. I don’t understand how people don’t understand that.

I don’t understand why they don’t want to take their own people back

When a country doesn't want to accept it's own citizens back. You understand very quickly the caliber of people on those flight's . Definitely not the best and brightest coming to the USA.

I just can't understand why people would risk life and limb to break into a country that is so overtly racist - or so the Left and their acolytes in the media would have us believe. ?

What a shock. Trump tries to bully other countries into getting his own way. Maybe Colombia gave in but it won't work with other countries. It would have been good for a few people to see how tariffs actually work. Most Americans don't seem to understand how inflation works though, so it is no great surprise.

This president isn’t messing around dude is serious. People knew of his plan, he has been advertising it for a year. \n\nWhat I don’t understand is that the two airplanes carrying Colombians back to Colombia and the president of Colombia not wanting his own people back on Colombia’s soil. If I was Colombian I would be pissed at my own president.\n\nThe Colombian president is incompetent.

So many people don't fundamentally understand how tariffs work. America is one of the largest consumer markets in the world with the strongest impact on the global economic scale. Every country NEEDS their goods sold to the United States and tariffs make them pay more to get there goods here giving us a cash influx. while also dramatically increasing the competitive edge for domestic companies to compete against foreign slave markets.

He’s an idiot, the people who are working with him in his deportation nightmare are idiots. Are they unable to figure out how their hateful plans would be received; completely ignorant understanding of the boundaries that exist. America does not own the world.

From what I understand is that the president of Colombia did not like the fact that the United States sent deportees in military planes and not in a civil/commercial flight, which for him was an insult or discrimination against his people and that is why the Colombian president sent his own planes. That is what I understand.

Some people just don't understand that Trump does not play around. He's a man of his word and he'll take you down. Simple as that

Fucke these Latin countries. They are on the receiving end of US aid and they send their criminals to the US because they don’t want them. I don’t understand why people are against this.

People don’t understand tariffs. It hurts the foreign country far more. It means American companies will not buy from them leading them to lower prices or not do business with America. which is catastrophic for them.

this Cretin really doesnt understand how tarriffs work, the only people paying for his tarriffs will be American citizens.

Ive noticed alot of ignorance in these comments. What dont u understand about why he did this? U expect us to fly criminals back to where they came from in luxury? UM NO!!! The united states will no longer be pushed around. You people are soft. The president is literally cleaning up the country and you people are crying about it! The sanctions will no longer happen because the folded and agreed to accept the their criminals back. U cant run a county like a little softy like the biden administration. Thats how we got in this mess! Good god

I don’t understand why Colombia wouldn’t take back their own citizens who were in the US illegally. What if they wanted to deport an American who was in their country illegally… say overstayed a visa? American should just force them to keep that person? People complain that trump is somehow off his rocker but it violates diplomatic norms to refuse to take back your own people .

Criminal. You see, they have no understanding. They wants to break the law to get into the country anyway, when the country had told them, you got to go back Just too many. of you all trying to get in at once illegally. They just people that don't understand.

If they are illegal immigrants, and didn't apply for citizenship, what's the problem with sending them back to their countries? And their countries have to take them back. Why should they be allowed to stay in the U.S. if they came in illegally? I don't understand why people have a problem with this.

You guys don’t understand how tariffs work….\n\nEdit: damn you guys are still going…. \nI commented without wanting any people to comment. But appreciate that people that are cordial and nice. ?? \nRealized what a waste of time it is.

I just realized it's an old video from 2023. \nThe US can't help everybody. That's just a fact this people have to understand

It’s called desperation folks. Do a little research and find out what these people are trying to get away from! What would you do if you believed that this was the only way to protect your children, your family? I understand that the US doesn’t want criminals coming across our borders and that this wasn’t the way to do it. There are also many normal people. My heart goes out to those that sold everything they had to have to pay the cartels to make it through Mexico, because they won’t let anyone pass through without paying them. I’m sorry for them having to deal with the worst that life could throw at them. I pray that they are able to find another way to live.

Biden and harris were responsible for this. I understand people looking for a better life but this was madness and Trump is sorting it out now.

Additionally, if anything is not going their way, they complain about racism and why Canadians don’t understand their culture. Yet, they have no interest in learning about and adapting to Canadian culture. Many brought with them the ways of dealing with people and doing business that are often very shady and Canadians are forced to adapt to them. I support immigration as it adds to the diversity of our culture. However, when 80% of the permanent residence VISA were issued to Indians last year, that’s not diversity. We don’t want to become India 2.0.

Indian just to go your country \nHave some pride on yourself \nThey don’t want you there at all\n\nWhat do you not understand?\nGo back to india you dirty people

I really don’t understand is why people are leaving their own country and doing this kind of job in abroad? I mean they can also do the same thing in their own country then what is the point of spending thousands of dollar and going to these countries in the name of higher studies and then getting abused by them .

don’t judge too much. I’m not saying this is good for anyone that is living in ????. we already have a very bad housing crisis etc happening . but i definitely understand why they come.i have great empathy for them .. i feel horrible for them. these people aren’t lining up for black Friday deals or Taylor Swift tickets. these human beings are living in poverty, in danger in their own home countries. They want better for their children!! i’d actually question why they didn’t try for better (not actually, i have no right to judge them ..the lack of $ and danger would make most adults question if it’s the right thing to do). \nwe really need to remember...we aren’t special as human beings. we don’t deserve to live here more then they do. Our families just happen to cross the ocean(we weren’t even from the same land, like most of them, they want to cross a boarder that WE created) in the right decade, right century!! \nwe all came here and took from others. when we bought our land, built our homes, etc if you think back really it didn’t belong to them to sell it to us. It was stollen lands from the Native Americans. And we did such horrible things to natives for centuries!! we TOOK TOOK TOOK while nothing but destruction was given to them in return They are the REAL AMERICANS!!! \nAnd we killed them, we destroyed their communities, separated families, brought and spread diseases that killed thousands, kicked them off of their lands to go to areas we knew they couldn’t thrive, then we took their rights to hold & spend their own money, then stole that money that was to help them set up communities crops food and left them for dead !! we stole their babies from their mothers and fathers and we did this as recently as 50 years ago. \nso remember the day the first white man stepped on North American land was the last day we could say this was the land of the free !! \n\nwe have taken taken and taken from the ? fkd the world over.\nRemember..Americans are the reason south America has the dangerous gangs, cartels poverty,corruption,deaths we buy 40% of all drugs made there just one country buys 40%!! but why change things...when our leaders are benefiting hugely from the chaos. who cares about Mexican, South America families Just get them off our doorsteps ..right. ?\njust don’t think we aren’t Next !! ????

As a Brit I know many decent integrated Indians here. But none of them are recent arrivals. Older immigrants were respectful and wanted to be British and adopt British ways. But newer immigrants act as if we owe them something while acting in disrespectful dirty disgusting ways. For example in India I have to use Indian toilets as Indians do. I don’t pretend I don’t understand how to use them, I don’t need instructions on the door and I don’t break the toilet by standing on it, shytting up the walls and all over the floor and leave it there like that’s normal. I’ve worked in offices where this was routine when Indian contractors were brought in. Integrated Indian men seem to take great pride in dressing smartly and smelling good. But it’s really common for Indians to smell REALLY BAD. Poor personal hygiene plus excessive amounts of Indian food (you’re abroad ffs try some different food!) creates a truly vile odour. Some Indian men also think it acceptable to stare at and harass British girls (although to be fair they do not have as bad a reputation as their neighbours) they are also rude and racist to white people especially women. Some Indians in 2025 still seem to think they’re living under the Raj and Britain is ‘oppressing’ them. They’re not and we’re not. The empire brought benefits to India and left peacefully over 70 YEARS ago. We don’t owe you ANYTHING. This victim mentality means India will NEVER be a proper first world country. You can flood the world with sheer numbers but you will never be respected or improve the world in any way, you will only ever leech off the invention of others. I do not mean to disrespect the many decent Indian people I’m just telling the truth. As a culture your presence outside of India is negative because of the way so many Indians act, trying to create India wherever they go. And they have the cheek to say this is ok because they got colonised. WELL SO DID WE! That is the truth.

My lord ….why people don’t understand about rules . Did everyone are forgetting about 911 !?!?? Do the right thing for better future nature. But !?The problem this society social media, make people jealous about life things, materials things, make people do bad things . For that !? We are destroying the world ? . I remember when the dollar was less than 2 reais, Brazilian currency . The time was the President George W. Bush family . I never forget the tragedy on the 911 . I remember The US , send Military to find the responsible the 911 , lots money was involved to support the soldiers .Lots country the time was not involved in the 911 . But did get the chance pays all the bills too “ because the money was going down quickly , gave one good opportunity to payback he United States money ?. Then thought The Americans never get back after, 911 !? Americans are amazing people, because they’re responsible pay for their own taxes , to support the country . Resume :::::::1= pays the bills to the United States of America, so the people from another country don’t live , to come to America ??. 2= make the money universal : if don’t “ the war will getting worse . The president the United States of America , Trump deserves respect ?? if you don’t . Bad times come true , to kip the American save . So much things to do with this planet ?, but people’s always want burn ? petroleum, for not being productive enough to care about the environment planet ?. We must use more Electric ⚡️ cars , to have better chance future rainy . ?

Um they all crossed the border illegally. Thats literally a crime right there. How is the news so brain dead? No wonder people don’t listen to news anymore. If you cross the border of a sovereign country not at a port of entry and you don’t obtain a visa or any other permission to stay in the country long term you are committing a crime. Like how hard is that for the news to understand.