Most Americans support President Donald Trump’s recent use of tariff threats to pressure Colombia to accept American deportation flights, a poll by Scott Rasmussen’s Napolitan Institute finds.
In late January, Trump successfully persuaded Colombian President Gustavo Petro to accept repatriation flights of Colombian illegal immigrants in the U.S. by threatening 50% tariffs after Petro initially refused to accept the flights.
This week, Trump followed a similar heavy-handed approach when dealing with Mexico and Canada, using tariff threats to persuade both neighboring countries to station 10,000 troops on the border to prevent the flow of fentanyl into the United States.
Rasmussen’s latest poll shows that a majority of Americans support this tactical use of tariffs as statecraft.
The survey of 1,000 Americans showed that 57% of respondents said the president was…
