Speaker Johnson Suggests Other Countries Follow Colombia in Offering Presidential Planes for Deportations

The speaker also discussed the president’s proposal to tie California’s wildfire aid with voter ID rule, recent firings of inspectors generals, and FEMA review.

House Speaker-elect Mike Johnson (R-La.) speaks after winning the House Speaker election during the first sitting of the 119th Congress in Washington on Jan. 3, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

DORAL, Fla.—At a key House GOP conference, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) suggested that other countries might do well to follow Colombia’s example of sending their presidential planes to pick up illegal aliens detained in the United States.

“We were happy to send them back,” Johnson told reporters on Jan. 27 at the Trump National Doral Miami, where House Republicans are meeting to discuss a reconciliation package along with other priorities.