President Donald Trump would like to send Americans to foreign prisons.
Yep, you read that correctly.
The president of the United States wants to send U.S. citizens to prisons outside of the U.S., as he was overheard telling El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele that he would love to send “homegrown criminals” to his country next.
Technically, he already has.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was wrongly deported to the notorious El Salvadorian Terrorist Confinement Center despite never being tried or convicted of any crimes. On Monday, Bukele met with President Trump and laughed at the idea of returning Abrego Garcia, stating, “How could I return him to the United States? I smuggle him to the United States? Of course, I’m not going to do it. The question is preposterous.”
“I don’t have the power to return him to the United States. I’m not releasing — I mean, we’re not very fond of releasing terrorists into our country,” he added.
Abrego Garcia is not a terrorist and shouldn’t be labeled as one, but the Trump administration doesn’t care about brown people (old Kanye voice).
Bukele has allowed his country to become a holding ground for deported migrants and has been influential in helping President Trump ignore a Supreme Court order for the Trump administration to facilitate Abrego Garica’s return.
But the two men just laughed it up like old friends because they don’t care about one wrongly incarcerated brown man who they are sure committed some crime, even if they don’t have proof. Before reporters were allowed in the room, Trump discussed with Bukele the idea of sending American “criminals” accused of violent crimes to El Salvador and then added that they would need to build more prisons.
“Homegrown criminals next,” Trump said, according to a livestream posted by Bukele’s office, ABC News reports. “I said homegrowns are next,…
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