(27 Mar 2025)
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Bogota, Colombia – 27 March 2025
1. Various of Colombian Foreign Minister Laura Sarabia and U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at press conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristi Noem, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary:
"We’re going to strengthen our regional security systems and make sure that we’re disrupting the movement of threatening actors that perpetuate illegal activity and also facilitate illegal trafficking of migrants across the Western Hemisphere."
3. Sarabia and Noem taking seats
4. Sarabia and Noem signing agreement
5. Sarabia and Noem getting up and shaking hands
6. Sarabia and Noem holding agreements
7. Sarabia and Noem during press conference
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristi Noem, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary:
"We’re committed to working hand in hand with our Colombian partners to enhance not only border security, but also that we will support the enforcement of our immigration and our criminal laws. We do appreciate the president and his team and the minister working to facilitate the repatriation of Colombian nationals back to their country, and we’ll continue to work on that as well."
9. Wide of Sarabia and Noem during press conference
10. Mid of media
11. SOUNBITE (Spanish) Laura Sarabia, Colombian Foreign Minister:
"Today we signed a letter of intent to strengthen cooperation in the area of migration information. This is one more step towards establishing specific, realistic and effective measures that guarantee both the consolidation of our friendly relationship with the United States and the guarantee that the human rights and dignity of migrants are effectively respected."
12. Sarabia and Noem shaking hands and posing for photos before leaving conference
STORYLINE:
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, signed an agreement with Colombia’s foreign minister on Thursday to expand the sharing of biometric data for law enforcement.
"We’re going to strengthen our regional security systems and make sure that we’re disrupting the movement of threatening actors that perpetuate illegal activity and also facilitate illegal trafficking of migrants across the Western Hemisphere," Noem said after meeting with Laura Sarabia during her visit to Bogota.
The officials did not elaborate on what data will be shared or when they plan to launch the programme.
Noem’s trip comes amid a souring in relations between the Trump administration and the Colombian government – long the United States’ closest ally in the region.
Tensions between the two countries rose in January over accepting flights of immigrants deported from the U.S.
Noem sat down with the country’s foreign minister Thursday morning, and is set to meet with Colombia’s leftist leader and police to discuss efforts to fight organized crime later.
Colombia is the second stop on Noem’s first Latin American trip since taking office.
On Wednesday she was in El Salvador, where she visited a maximum-security prison where nearly 300 deported Venezuelans were held.
She will continue on Friday to Mexico.
AP video shot by Samuel Sotomayor
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