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By Eric Martin

January 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM UTC

Updated on

January 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM UTC

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A deportation arrangement with Colombia that the White House presented as a total victory for Donald Trump looks less clear two days later.

The migrants the US tried to deport by US military flights on Sunday started traveling home on Monday on a Colombian air force plane, President Gustavo Petro said in posts on social media.