Trump wants to deport to El Salvador including American citizens: “They are absolute monsters”
Nayib Bukele and Donald Trump Photo: Ken Cedeno / Upi / Profimedia
US President Donald Trump said he wants to deport violent criminals who are American citizens to El Salvador, where they would be imprisoned on the basis of an agreement with the Central-American country, writes Reuters.
Trump made the statement in a discussion with journalists accredited to the White House, during the state visit made by the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele.
The President's considerations are a clear signal that the US president is seriously taking the possibility of deporting some naturalized or born citizens with American citizenship, an idea that has alarmed groups for civil rights and which many experts claim to be unconstitutional.
Trump said he would go to the end with the project if his administration will determine that it is legal. “We must always respect the laws, but we have internal criminals who push people in front of the subway, who hit the elderly ladies with the baseball stick, are absolute monsters. I would like to include them in the group of people to remove from the country, but we will have to examine the laws in this regard.”
Trump said last week that he “liked the idea of deporting citizens to El Salvador, after Bukele said that his country was willing to receive American prisoners. The press secretary of the White House Karoline Leavitt then confirmed that the proposal was discussed, saying that Trump “only conveyed” the idea.
The Trump administration has sent hundreds of immigrants accused of criminal affiliates in the huge prison in El Salvador known as the detention center for terrorism, for which the US pays $ 6,000,000.
The best known deporteed, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadorian citizen, was deported despite a court order that protects him from expelling. The US government described its deportation as an administrative error.
The US Supreme Court maintained the decision of a lower court that ordered the administration to “facilitate and carry out” its return. But the Supreme Court said that the term “realizes” is unclear and could exceed the authority of a district court judge.
In a document submitted to the court, the administration stated that it is not obliged to help Abrego Garcia get out of the prison in El Salvador. Bukele stated during the Monday meeting with Trump that he would not return Abrego Garcia and will not release him from prison, and Trump said he was not interested in asking for his return.
