In January, inmates sat in a cell at Mega Pronon, the CECOT of El Salvador, where hundreds of gang members were imprisoned in January. The Trump administration said it is considering a proposal by El Salvador to accept U.S. prisoners, including some U.S. citizens, in prison.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said U.S. President Nayib Bukele made a statement about criminals held in U.S. prisons, including U.S. citizens and legal residents, in their national prisons The proposal to hold a prison offender said the United States was "very grateful".
Rubio called the proposal a “extraordinary gesture that no country has ever expanded.” But the prospect of the U.S. potentially considering expelling its own citizens to serve in prisons in another country has quickly sparked opposition, and people say such plans are illegal.
It is unclear how the Trump administration takes such a thought seriously, but President Trump said Tuesday that he would welcome it if it is legal.
"I just said if we had a legitimate approach, I would be heartbeat faster," President Trump said Tuesday when asked about El Salvador's proposal. "I don't know if we do that, we're watching now." However, experts insist that this is unconstitutional.
Rubio During a short trip to El Salvador, Rubio told reporters that Bucker agreed to accept any criminals illegal in the United States in order to accept his national prison and offered to accept "the dangerous American criminals in our country, including us The dangers of the nation of the United States criminals our citizenship and legal residents.”
"Never a country has proposed such a friendship," Rubio said.
Asked about the idea Tuesday, the secretary stressed that there were no plans to deport U.S. citizens to prisons in El Salvador.
"This is an offer made by President Buckley," Rubio said. "Obviously, we have to do our research at the end. It's obviously involved legality. We have a constitution, we have all kinds of things."
Rubio said the proposal was “outsourcing at a small portion of the cost, at least our most dangerous and violent criminals in the United States.”
"But obviously, the government will have to make a decision," he added.
Then, a reporter asked what kind of human rights protections might be if the prisoners were deported to El Salvador.
Rubio reiterated that at this stage, the proposal was only a proposal made by Buckler.
He added: "We're going to have to look at it and see how something like that is applied."
"You are not allowed to expel U.S. citizens," said Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the group's immigration rights program. "The courts do not allow this, they do not allow this."
In extradition cases, the United States faces criminal charges for sending citizens to another country. But, Gelent said: “In other cases, it is unconstitutional to deport a U.S. citizen to a foreign country.
As for the idea of the United States deporting non-citizens to countries they don’t come to.
"Parliament has made very cautious guarantees about when it is possible to send non-citizens back to countries outside of their own country," he said. "A deal must be reached with this third country and it must be clear that the person is not at risk in that country. Among them, they must be able to challenge being sent to another country.”
This move cannot yet cause persecution or torture to expelled people.
"If non-citizens are sent to El Salvador, we will cause serious concerns," Galent said. As for the prospect of U.S. citizens being sent to prison sentences ordered by a U.S. court, he called it "the person who doesn't start."
Trump said in the Oval Office that while the main focus is on dealing with non-citizens whose family state refuses to accept repatriation flights, he welcomes the opportunity to expel tenacious criminals in the United States and illustrates several outrageous crimes .
"If we can take them out of our country, we will have other countries taking them away," Trump told reporters. "It's no different from the prison system, except that it's much cheaper, which will It's a big deterrent."
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"We have other countries coming to us and saying, 'We would love to do this, and we're happy to take your criminals." When asked later about the names of some of these countries, he replied, "A lot." Many countries.”
"Immigration is tough, but we also have some bad people," Trump said. "I want to take them out. It's all in line with the laws of our land, and we're thinking about that and seeing how we can do it." .”