Trump Says He’d Like to Deport Some US Citizens to El Salvador

The president said his administration would consider relevant legislation.

On April 14, President Donald Trump said he deported US citizens for committing crimes and elicited criticism from Democrats.

“I don’t know what the law is – we have to follow the law all the time, but there are also homemade criminals who push people into the subway.

“I want to include them in a group of people to let them go out of the country, but you have to see the laws about it,” he added.

Trump later confirmed that he was talking about including US citizens among those deported.

“If they’re criminals and they attack someone with a baseball bat on their heads…and if they rape an 87-year-old woman on Coney Island, yes, that includes them,” he said. “Why do you think they’re a special category of people? They’re as bad as the people who come in. We have bad people too.”

Trump was speaking during a meeting with El Salvador President Naive Buquere, who lives in the hundreds of illegal immigrants who have been deported from the United States.

Buquere previously offered to house citizens of all nationalities in prisons in El Salvador.

As Trump and Buquere entered the room, the president said, “The criminals of his country are coming next. He said El Salvador needs to build five more places.”

“There’s space,” replied.

The US Constitution gave protection to citizens, and the courts held that Americans who committed the crimes retained citizenship. Meanwhile, some rulings have determined that naturalized people could lose their citizenship if they were found to procure naturalization illegally.

“It is illegal to station a US citizen in a foreign country for a crime. In fact, US citizens can only strip themselves of citizenship if they act intentionally and intentionally and voluntarily renounce their formal waiver of citizenship, such as whether to leave their nationality in the United States during the war era or “at the time of their departure of the center.” I wrote it in my blog post for justice.

Democrats denounced Trump’s comments.

“To put the idea of sending us to a foreign prison where hundreds of people have died is an outrageous attack on our constitution and democracy,” Sen. Gregory Meeks (DN.Y.) wrote on social media platform X.

“It’s a dangerous and unconstitutional proposal to fly in the face of everything our nation represents. In America, citizenship is the right thing, not a privilege to be revoked on a whim. We do not let ourselves be exiled, we support the rule of law.

The statement comes after the Trump administration deported at least 288 illegal immigrants, many indigenous peoples in Venezuela, to El Salvador. Officials say the group includes Tren de Aragua and members of the MS-13 gang.

According to the White House, the US government paid El Salvador about $6 million to house people in the prison system.

One of Kilmer Abrego Garcia, a deported Salvador native, was sent to his home country, despite a judicial order forbids sending him there. Officials said deportation was wrong, but the Trump administration said Monday it had no authority to return Garcia to the United States.

“If they want to return him, it’s up to El Salvador,” U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondy said Trump and Buquel met. “That’s not up to us.”

Bukere said his country would not return Garcia. Garcia said the US judge was a “verified member of MS-13” and that Trump has designated a foreign terrorist organization.

“How can I smuggle terrorists into the US? I don’t have the power to bring him back to the US,” Bukel said.

When asked if he would release Garcia to El Salvador, Bukere said no.

Garcia’s lawyers say the administration needs to take steps to ensure the release of its clients in light of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision. The federal judges overseeing Garcia’s case have yet to control their claims.