After deporting foreign passport headlines to a notorious Central America, the president indicates that North citizens -Americans could follow.
The United States is hoping to start deporting criminals who have passports in the United States to El Salvador, according to President Donald Trump.
Trump told journalists as he welcomed The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele In the White House on Monday he would like to send violent « homemade criminals » to be imprisoned in an agreement with the government of the country of Central America.
The comments came in the middle of the controversy over the unlawful deportation From a migrant to the notorious prison of Cecot de El Salvador.
Trump said it would only happen with the idea if his administration decided that he was legal.
« We must always obey the laws, but we also have homemade criminals who push people to the subway, which affect the elderly ladies on the back of their heads with a baseball bat when they are not looking for, who are absolute monsters, » said Trump.
« I would like to include in the group of people to get them out of the country, but you have to look at the laws about it. »
Trump told journalists last week that he « loved » the idea, after Bukele said that his country was open to the housing of the prisoners of the United States.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that the proposal was on the table, saying that Trump had « simply floated » the idea.
Notre Dame University professor Erin Corcoran, an immigration law expert, said that there is no « disposition » under North -American law « that would allow the government to expel citizens outside the country. »
“Build more prisons”
The United States leader made statements as controversy over the deportation of Kilmar Abrego GarciaA Savior living in Maryland with his family and received protection against the deportation by a court in 2019 before being sent to Cecot.
The United States Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to facilitate its return. However, the administration has said that Garcia’s fate is in El Salvador and has tried to maintain that he is a member of the MS-13 criminal gang, despite the lack of evidence or any conviction.
Monday, Bukele told Trump that he would not return or Abrego Garcia Nor to free him to El Salvador. Trump said he was not interested in asking that he be released by Abrego Garcia.
« Homemade criminals are next, » the United States President said in Bukele. « I said the casals are next, the married. You have to build about five more places. »
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