“Well, it’s another question that the president has raised. It’s a legal question that the president is looking into, and he talked about this yesterday with his meeting [with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele] in the Oval Office,” Leavitt responded. “He would only consider this if legal for Americans who are the most violent, egregious repeat offenders of crime who nobody in this room wants living in their communities.”
Doocy: Deporting American citizens to Central American prisons, is it legal, or do you need to change the law to do it?
Leavitt: It is a legal question the president is looking into. pic.twitter.com/MPR1lXATqg — Acyn (@Acyn) April 15, 2025
It’s a disturbing response, because no elected official should be willing to sell out Americans to be imprisoned in a foreign country, even if they are convicted criminals. During Trump’s meeting with Bukele Monday, he kept repeating that “homegrown criminals are next,” which would certainly violate the Constitution and lead to a protracted legal fight in federal court.
The Trump administration has already deported more than 200 people, most of them without criminal records, to El Salvador with no due process, claiming that they are gang members without any proof. In a particularly egregious case, Maryland construction builder Kilmar Abrego Garcia was sent to El Salvador’s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, a prison notorious for human rights abuses, in what the U.S. government later called an “administrative error.”
MagicBingo on April 16th, 2025 at 15:08 UTC »
He does. And he lies as much as is parents did when they said they were proud of him.
Designer-Contract852 on April 16th, 2025 at 14:58 UTC »
Reminder, this witch grew up in a town where black people were not allowed to live until the 90s. Oprah did a show on it early in her career. Those attitudes shaped this ugly woman's worldview.
thenewrepublic on April 16th, 2025 at 14:50 UTC »