Visa appointments at the U.S. Embassy in Colombia have been canceled following a dispute between President Donald Trump and his Colombian counterpart Gustavo Petro over deportation flights that nearly

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

Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced that Colombia was suspending permission for previously authorized U.S. deportation flights to land in Colombia. Ostensibly driving Petro’s action were concerns that Colombian nationals were not being treated with respect during the deportation process because they were being transported by military aircraft.

The nations spent much of the day in a tense standoff, with the U.S. president threatening tariffs and visa restrictions after Colombia turned away two deportation flights.

President Donald Trump appeared to win Sunday’s showdown with Colombia, after Colombia appeared to accept military flights carrying deportees. But the faceoff could herald more conflict.

Exhausted and grimy after days of detention in the U.S., migrants began arriving Tuesday at their homeland’s capital aboard Colombian government jets—part of what the Trump administration calls America’s largest-ever mass deportation.

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.