The Trump administration plans to repatriate back to Ecuador and Colombia the two alleged drug traffickers who survived the U.S. military’s recent boat strike in the Caribbean.
President Trump announced on Saturday that the two survivors of the Thursday boat strike by U.S. forces, which killed two other “narcoterrorists,” will be transferred over to their countries of origin for “detention and prosecution.”
It is unclear if Ecuador and Colombia will prosecute the alleged narcoterrorists or if they will be released.
The transfer of the survivors comes after they were detained on Thursday, following the strike, and transferred to a Navy ship where they received medical treatment.
The four alleged drug traffickers were traveling in a semi-submersible that Trump said was heading to the U.S