Trump says that the idea of sending American “wiseguys” to prisons in El Salvador
President Donald Trump He said that he “loves” the idea of sending American “essays” to El Salvador prisons.
The observation came when a journalist interrogated Trump if he would consider sending Americans in El Salvador After the president Nayib bukele he said Would be willing to take them. Trump Previously he said he would be “well” and “very happy” with the removal of Americans imprisoned a El SalvadorPrisons, while doge leader Elon Musk A “called himExcellent idea. “
“I love him,” Trump said on Sunday. “If we could take some of our 20 times Wiseguys who push people on the subway and hit people on the back of the head and then invest in purpose, the people in self-if took them, I would be honored to give them.”
The Trump administration has already deported hundreds of immigrants who presumably were members of the Venezuelan The Tren de Aragua gang at a mega-reprisons in El Salvador last month after the president invoked the Wartime Alien Enemies Act.
A federal judge he had temporarily interrupted their deportationBut when he issued his order, the planes were already in the air.
The administration later admitted it “Many” of the dozens of Venezuelan men deported to El Salvador’s mega-project have no criminal records. Many of those deported It also seems to have targeted exclusively to have tattoos.
Trump added that “does not know” what the law on the deportation of the Americans to El Salvador says, but that he cannot “imagine that the law would say something different”.
“If they manage to host these horrible criminals for a lot less money than it costs us, it’s all for this,” he said.
Experts say that there is no legal basis for sending Americans to foreign prisons.
“I don’t know anything that would give the president the authority to force US citizens who serve federal prisoners to serve their time in prisons of a different country”, the law professor M. Isabel Medina with Loyola University New Orleans College of Law previously said The Independent.
“Since the constitutional authority of creating federal crimes lies in congress, not in the executive, and because US citizens may not be expelled, even if imprisoned, would seem illegal for the president to do so in particular without any statutory authority”, added Medina.
“A reminder: the Trump administration did not reveal any detail of the pact with El Salvador,” wrote the lawyer Aaron Reichlin-Melnick immigration X In response to Trump’s Sunday comments. “We do not literally know anything about it, apart from the payment of $ 6 million”.
“No law in the United States authorizes us to pay another country to imprison people,” he added. “Yet they are doing it.”
After reflecting on the fact that he could send the Americans to El Salvador, Trump then made a rant for criminals “cultivated by the Americans”.
“We have some horrible criminals, cultivated and American -born,” said Trump. “We have someone who does an old man in the lead, and we have someone who is in prison 20 times and goes back and shoots people everywhere and then has a bad judge or a bad prosecutor who does nothing about them, all they care about is politics, they don’t care about this.”
“I think that if we could convince El Salvador or someone to take them, I would be very happy, but I should see what the law says,” he continued.
