MIAMI -- Long lines formed at Miami International Airport this week as travelers arriving from Colombia reported being stuck in a single line regardless of their citizenship status. Cell phone video circulating online from Tuesday night shows a sea of people waiting in line.

CBS News Miami's Chelsea Jones was at the airport to figure out why some people flying in from the South American country were told to wait for hours in a separate line.

The Trump administration had added extra inspections for passengers from Colombia at U.S. ports of entry as part of a pressure campaign on the country’s president. The effects lingered into Wednesday.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro asked President Donald Trump to sit down with him and talk things over a glass of whiskey, called him an outright racist in rambling social media posts and pledged to never yield to Washington’s pressure even if the economic sanctions being threatened led to his overthrow.

A Colombian customs worker has admitted his role in taking bribes and funneling more than $1 million in drug proceeds in a case that threatened to expose dirty dealings between U.S.

South Florida is home to hundreds of thousands of people with roots in Colombia, according to federal government data, underscoring the longstanding and deep ties between the region and the South American country.

D: South Florida is a top destination for imports from Colombia, including the big business of flowers ahead of the holiday. But a lightning trade war between the two nations that erupted on Sunday appeared to have been averted overnight.

Trump is scheduled to speak Monday morning in Florida at the House GOP retreat. Here’s the latest from his administration as he heads into his second week in office.

Colombia has denied entry to two U.S. military deportation flights, according to officials from the Department of Homeland Security and the Defense Department. The flights, carried out on U.S. military C-17 aircraft, were carrying about 80 Colombian migrants each and had departed from California, the defense official told NBC News.

Donald Trump in his return to the White House has already previewed his second term foreign policy approach: Talk loudly and wield a big stick.

Researchers in the Amazon of Colombia made a mysterious discovery when taking a closer look at a fish collected from a forest stream, according to a study published Jan. 28 in the peer-reviewed journal Zootaxa. It belonged to the “miniature fish genus Priocharax,” according to the study, and was just 0.7 inches long.