{"id":36059,"date":"2023-05-05T17:31:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T17:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/flights-returning-colombian-migrants\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T17:35:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T17:35:07","slug":"flights-returning-colombian-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/flights-returning-colombian-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Flights returning Colombian migrants from US border to restart from next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOGOTA (Reuters) &#8211;     Flights returning Colombians found by immigration officers at the U.S. border with Mexico to their home country will resume beginning next week, Colombia&#8217;s migration agency said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said this week it had temporarily suspended the program, citing cruel and degrading treatment and last-minute flight cancellations.<\/p>\n<p>The number of Colombians trying to migrate north to the U.S. has soared in recent years, with more than 125,000 apprehended at the United States&#8217; southern border in 2022, according U.S Customs and Borders Protection (CBP), up from around 6,200 in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The agreements that we have reached with the North American authorities are the following: the flights for returning people will restart from next week and there are two working groups, with a human rights perspective, which will create two protocols to guarantee the integrity of returning travelers,&#8221; migration agency director Fernando Garcia said in a video statement.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Julia Symmes Cobb; Editing by Bill Berkrot)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/flights-returning-colombian-migrants\/file-photo-migrants-spend-christmas-at-a-shelter-in-mexico\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportTopNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ440O5-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ440O5-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/flights-returning-colombian-migrants\/file-photo-migrants-cross-the-border-in-yuma-arizona-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportTopNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ440O6-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ440O6-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOGOTA (Reuters) &#8211; Flights returning Colombians found by immigration officers at the U.S. border with Mexico to their home country will resume beginning next week, Colombia&#8217;s migration agency said on Friday. The agency said this week it had temporarily suspended the program, citing cruel and degrading treatment and last-minute flight cancellations. The number of Colombians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":36060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-top-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportTopNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ440O5-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36062,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36059\/revisions\/36062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}