President Trump floated sending US citizens to Salvadoran prisons duration of a conversation with the leader of the Central American country on Monday, which suggests that he built “five more” facilities to make space.
“The domestic crops are the following. Domestic crops. You have to build about five more places,” Trump told President Nayib Bukele in the Oval office, which caused a laugh of the administration officials sitting close.
“It’s not large enough.”
Trump, 78, has said for a long time that he is thinking of ways to send hardened criminals from the United States, in addition to the criminal members of migrant gangs who have already been eliminated to the confinement actor of confinement of maximum security terrorism.
The president said Monday that he had ordered the attorney general PAM Bondi to investigate the legal process to deport US citizens.
“If it is a homemade gray criminal, I have no problem with that,” Trump told reporters.
“We are studying the laws at this time. PAM is studying. If we can do that, that’s good. And I’m talking about violent people, I’m talking about really bad people.”
When they were asked to confirm that he was talking about American citizens born in nature, Trump replied: “If they are criminals and if they are beaten with bats with baseball bats on their head that are 90 years old and Ifhyy, Brooklyn-Año year, that includes them.
“What do you think, there is a special category of person? They are as bad as anyone who enters.”
The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, confirmed on April 8 that Trump was reflecting public and privately deporting the violent repeat offenders to El Salvador.
“The president has said if it is legal, if there is a legal path to do so, it is not sure, we are not sure if there is,” he said. “It is an idea that has floated and discussed very publicly.”
Trump had said the previous day that he would “love” and would be “honest” to send “20 times stews that push people to the subway” to the mega prison of Latin America.