Daniel Oquendo, 33, remembers well the first words US border agents told him after he crossed the US-Mexico border on0.

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.

Newsweek has reached out to the Colombian Foreign Ministry for comment via email. Why It Matters. Trump made immigration a central theme of his successful presidential campaign an

Colombia welcomed its first flights of deported illegal immigrants with its president heralding their return and insisting they are not criminals.