While the Biden-era swamp sold out America’s southern border to cartels and chaos, President Donald Trump and his Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem are taking real action to restore law and order—not just at home, but across Latin America. On Thursday, the U.S. and Colombia signed a powerful new letter of intent that will expand biometric data sharing between the two countries, marking a major win for national security, migration enforcement, and criminal disruption.
Noem, who’s been making the rounds across Latin America this week, met with Colombia’s far-left President Gustavo Petro and Foreign Minister Laura Sarabia in Bogotá to get the deal done. The message was clear: under President Trump, the United States will not tolerate lawlessness—whether it’s at our own border or brewing in the backyards of our so-called allies.
Noem, speaking after the signing ceremony, laid it out in plain terms. “We’ve had the opportunity not just to share our policy concerns, but also what our people are concerned about,” she said, listing public safety, drug trafficking, human trafficking, and organized crime as top threats. “We’re partnering in a new way, in a historical way that will bring results.”
This is what real diplomacy looks like—results, not rhetoric. Unlike the staged photo ops and virtue-signaling diplomacy of the Biden years, Trump’s foreign policy team is cutting deals that directly benefit American citizens and secure our nation’s borders.
It wasn’t always this cooperative, though. Back in January, Petro decided to play tough with Trump, refusing to accept deportation flights of illegal Colombian migrants until a new “dignified” protocol was created. But Trump responded with trademark strength: threatening tariffs, sanctions, and a visa freeze on Colombian travelers. Petro folded. Flights resumed. And just months later, Colombia is not only cooperating—they’re now sharing sensitive biometric data to track and stop criminals.
That’s the Trump doctrine at work: put America first, play hardball when needed, and bring allies into line through strength, not surrender.
Sarabia, translating for Petro, admitted the turnaround, saying, “We signed today an intention letter for the strengthening of the cooperation… to ensure the conciliation of our relationship.” Translation: we know we crossed the wrong president, and now we’re getting back on board.
Noem’s three-day Latin America trip continues Friday in Mexico, where she’ll meet with incoming President Claudia Sheinbaum. On Wednesday, she was in El Salvador with President Nayib Bukele, touring a maximum-security prison holding illegal immigrant members of the violent Tren de Aragua gang—who were promptly deported from U.S. soil under Trump’s renewed border strategy.
This is how America gets its allies to respect us again. Not through weakness. Not through groveling. Through unapologetic strength, fearless leadership, and deals that protect American families first.
