Colombia and the United States are in a diplomatic stoush over the treatment of deported migrants after a flurry of social media posts from both nations' leaders.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro denied two US military planes carrying deported Colombian migrants permission to land over the weekend.
US President Donald Trump retaliated by slapping trade sanctions on Colombia, which he has now suspended.
Here's what we know about the situation.
Why did Colombia refuse entry to deportation flights?
Mr Petro said his government would not accept flights carrying migrants deported from the US until its administration created a protocol that treated them with "dignity".
Mr Petro made the announcement in two X posts, one of which included a news video of a different group of migrants reportedly deported to Brazil walking on a tarmac with their hands and feet restrained.
"A migrant is not a criminal and must be treated with the dignity that a human being deserves," Mr Petro said.
"That is why I returned the US military planes that were carrying Colombian migrants."
Mr Petro added that his country would receive Colombians in "civilian planes" and "without treatment like criminals".
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Mr Petro had initially authorised the flights.
The military aircraft had already left California and were in the air, bound for Colombia when they were denied permission to land, Reuters reports.
Where were they taken?
Back to the US.
An unnamed American official told US broadcaster CBS the migrants were taken back to the US and were in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
They would remain there until a new agreement was made, the broadcaster reported.
It was unclear what conditions the passengers were subjected to.
Will Colombia take them back?
Yes.
Mr Petro said he would send a presidential plane to "facilitate the dignified return of Colombian nationals who were to return today", in a translated statement posted to X.
He said the passengers had not been banished from Colombia.
The Colombian government said it was "holding active talks" with the US to ensure officials maintained the "minimum conditions of respect" when they were deporting people.
But now it appears Colombia will accept deportation flights on military planes, according to a statement from the US government late on Sunday.
Colombia had agreed to accept the migrants and the US government agreed not impose its threatened penalties, the statement said.
"The Government of Colombia has agreed to all of president Trump's terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens from Colombia returned from the United States, including on US military aircraft, without limitation or delay," it said.
Are these deportations out of the ordinary?
Not really — but the conditions might be.
Similar deportation flights also happened when Joe Biden was president.
Though these deportation flights didn't happen via military planes, Associated Press (AP) points out.
Mr Trump had campaigned for the presidency promising a tougher stance on illegal immigrants, signing an executive order called "Protecting the American people against invasion" on his first day in office.
The next day, his administration rescinded a Biden-era notice, effectively making it easier for authorities to remove illegal immigrants via what's known as "expedited removal" authority.
Here's a snippet of that order:
"…the full application of expedited removal authority will enable DHS to address more effectively and efficiently the large volume of aliens who are present in the United States unlawfully, without having been admitted or paroled into the United States, and ensure the prompt removal from the United States of those not entitled to enter, remain, or be provided relief or protection from removal."
Mr Trump also sent troops to the US-Mexico border and lifted longtime rules restricting immigration enforcement near schools and churches.
And this has heightened fears among immigrant communities, with concerns there could be arrests of otherwise law-abiding people at schools and workplaces.
Have there been more deportations in the US than usual?
We don't have all the numbers yet, but Mr Trump has made deportations a top priority for his administration.
Authorities arrested 538 people on Thursday and 593 people on Friday, AP reports.
"What we have seen over the past week is the new administration trying to show that it is deporting people," ABC's North America correspondent Barbara Miller says.
"The numbers we have seen so far don't seem to suggest that they are up.
"Undocumented migrants who are convicted of crimes are regularly deported."
Last year, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) figures showed deportations rose to a record high in the last financial year.
The US deported about 271,000 immigrants in the 2024 fiscal year — that's higher than any year under Mr Trump's last presidency.
Why does the US deport people?
The ICE says it removes people who pose "a threat to public safety, or who otherwise undermine the integrity of our immigration system", according to its website.
It says authorities concentrate on "public safety threats" which includes:
- convicted criminal undocumented aliens and gang members
- individuals who have otherwise violated our nation's immigration laws
- people who illegally re-entered the country after being removed
They also target fugitives in the US who are wanted for crimes committed abroad.
The ICE Air Operations arm coordinates its deportation from the country via commercial airlines and chartered flights — and these are fairly regular.
Colombia accepted 124 deportation flights from the US last year.
There were a total of 475 deportation flights into Colombia from the US between 2020 to 2024.
But it's not just Colombia.
For example, Vice-Foreign Minister of Honduras Antonio García said his government has an agreement with the US to accept between eight and 10 flights a week.
Does Australia deport people?
Yes.
In the 2022-23 financial year, 90 unlawful non-citizens were removed involuntarily, Department of Home Affairs secretary Stephanie Foster told Parliament last April.
In that same period, 2,184 unlawful non-citizens were voluntarily removed.
"In the majority of cases, non-citizens on a removal pathway depart Australia voluntarily or cooperate in efforts to ensure their prompt and lawful removal," Ms Foster said.
In November 2024, the Australian government amended the Migration Act 1958 to introduce new measures for removing certain non-citizens from Australia.
They included allowing the Australian government to pay third countries to accept non-citizens and imposing travel bans on entire countries that don't accept involuntary removals.
