Colombia agreed Sunday to take back some of its deported citizens after President Trump ordered tariffs and other restrictions to be put on the South American nation over its refusal of two U.S. planes carrying Colombian illegal immigrants.

Shortly after Mr. Trump made the tariff threat Sunday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro offered to send a presidential plane to the U.S. to pick up the deported Colombians, while insisting that his government still wanted to ensure a “dignified” process for deporting illegal immigrants.

The tiff began Sunday when Mr. Petro announced the refusal of two U.S. military planes carrying deported Colombians expected to land there that day. According to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the planes were already in the air.

Mr. Trump swiftly brought the hammer down.

“I was just informed that two repatriation flights from the United States, with a large number of Illegal Criminals, were not allowed to land in Colombia,” he wrote Sunday on Truth Social.

He said the rejection of the two flights “has jeopardized the National Security and Public Safety” of the U.S.

The president wrote that he has directed his administration to put “emergency” 25% tariffs on goods coming into the U.S. from the South American nation. After a week the tariffs will be raised to 50%.

Mr. Trump also said he would issue a travel ban and “immediate Visa Revocations” on Colombian government officials, allies and supporters, along with “Visa Sanctions” on “All Party Members, Family Members, and Supporters of the Colombian Government.”

He said that there would be extra customs inspections on all Colombian goods and nationals coming into the U.S.

“These measures are just the beginning,” he said. “We will not allow the Colombian Government to violate its legal obligations with regard to the acceptance and return of the Criminals they forced into the United States.”

In a statement later Sunday, Mr. Petro offered up his presidential plane to bring the deportees from the U.S. to Colombia, saying this would be preferable to having them sent to Colombia like criminals.

“The measure responds to the government’s commitment to guarantee dignified conditions,” the president said in a statement.

Earlier Sunday, Mr. Petro said in the post announcing the denial of the planes that “the US cannot treat Colombian migrants as criminals.”

“The United States must establish a protocol for the dignified treatment of migrants before we receive them,” he said, adding in another post that “a migrant is not a criminal and must be treated with the dignity that a human being deserves.”

One of the X posts Mr. Petro made included a news video of U.S. deportations to Brazil in which the illegal immigrants were walking on a tarmac with restraints on their hands and feet.

“That’s why I turned back the US military planes that were carrying Colombian migrants,” he wrote. “I cannot allow migrants to remain in a country that does not want them; but if that country sends them back, it must be with dignity and respect for them and for our country. We will receive our fellow citizens on civilian planes, without treating them like criminals. Colombia is respected.”

The Colombians on the two planes remain in Homeland Security custody Sunday.

“President Trump has made it clear that under his administration, America will no longer be lied to nor taken advantage of. It is the responsibility of each nation to take back their citizens who are illegally present in the United States in a serious and expeditious manner,” Mr. Rubio said.

Throughout his campaign, Mr. Trump reiterated his plans to stop illegal immigration into the country and repeatedly stated that mass deportations would be coming.

“President Trump is sending a strong and clear message to the entire world: if you illegally enter the United States of America, you will face severe consequences,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X on Friday.

Other Latin American nations were more immediately compliant.

Two Air Force C-17 planes arrived in Guatemala on Friday with roughly 160 deportees and Honduras received two deportation flights carrying almost 200 more.

Ms. Leavitt said in another X post Friday that Mexico had accepted “a record of 4 deportation flights in 1 day.”

• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.