The two nations spent much of the day in a tense standoff after President Donald Trump said the South American nation had turned away two deportation flights.

Colombia is the U.S.’s fourth-largest overseas supplier of crude oil, shipping about 209,000 barrels of oil per day last year.

Mexico has received non-Mexican deportees from the United States over the past week, President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday, reversing her previous opposition to doing so. Sheinbaum said that Mexico had accepted over 4,

Donald Trump's plan for mass deportations of migrants from the United States is facing initial obstacles. Colombia is the latest country to refuse to accept planes carrying deportees. Previously, Mexico did not permit a US military aircraft to land on its territory.

U.S. authorities on Friday removed dozens of migrants through a border crossing in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, and Mexican authorities immediately placed them on buses and drove them south, away from Juarez.

The U.S. government has worked to strengthen border security and enforce deportation policies, while Mexico has sought to balance cooperation with its own national interests. Tensions over immigration policies have repeatedly surfaced,