Summary
Trump expressed support for sending American citizens to El Salvador’s CECOT prison, praising President Bukele’s tough-on-crime stance.
The U.S. already deported 238 Venezuelans there under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, despite federal judges calling the transfers unlawful and ordering returns.
Trump said he’d be “honored” to send repeat U.S. offenders abroad if legal. Critics, including judges and rights advocates, condemned the plan as unconstitutional and authoritarian.
Legal experts warn no U.S. law permits outsourcing American incarceration, raising serious due process and human rights concerns.
It begins (not really, I mean it began a long time ago ((couple months)))
… if he can send people to black sites that are non citizen without due process, what’s to stop him from sending citizens…
it began a long time ago ((couple months)))
Has everyone forgotten about Guantanamo? There are probably people there still who just got caught up in “911” sweeps for all we know. Even if they say they’ve moved or transferred all of them.
I’m curious about how well-informed most Americans are about the Soviet Union. Do they know that it was once a place where ordinary people were accused of crimes without evidence, taken away without a trial, and never seen again? Do they know that this generally happened because of the smallest suspicion that a person was not fanatically loyal to the government, rather than a violent criminal? Do they know that a million people were killed this way? And do they know that the Soviet Union was one of many places like that?
I expect that the Soviet Union doesn’t seem particularly relevant to younger generations of voters, but isn’t this the sort of lurid history that did interest them as adolescents? And don’t older voters remember the Cold War?
Part of the problem is the cold war propaganda was so laser focused on “communism bad” that much of why the USSR was bad was lost. The older generation still have a knee jerk reaction to the word communism that right wing media frequently exploits to generate a cheap emotional reaction by accusing any group they don’t like of being communist. Meanwhile the real horrors of the USSR are largely ignored lest people start drawing parallels with current events.
Yes, Americans have somehow come to believe that, among the things the USSR did, providing housing and education to ordinary people is bad, while disappearing people based on their political opinions to be killed or worked to death in gulags is good.
The settler-states need to be de-Nazified.
My former boss did time as a kid in a gulag. He spent years there. He could not tell you what he did. He is Jewish so it could be that but it was post Stalin.
Next stop is to label trans people “repeat offenders” for using a restroom
He’s American himself, soooo… What are you all waiting for?
You mean the same person who spent many thousands out of pocket in an effort to kill 5 minority children, found out they were innocent via DNA, and had no regrets, is a sociopathic piece of shit that no execution method is too extreme for? No way
I’m out of the loop on this one
Trump is a repeat offender. Can you imagine him being sent to those prisons? He wouldn’t even make it past the first day.
He should lead by example
This shit right here is why need a well-regulated militia
OK, lets start with deporting himself.
Of course he does. He’s a sociopath.
Why does El Salvador spend money on American criminals? Dumb question
Make American Gulags Again
I think all felons pending sentencing should be extradicted to El Salvador as well.
You serious, my dude?
Maybe I should have been specific to just the overly orange tanned obese wannabe men.
He did get sentenced. His sentence was unconditional discharge. The only negative repercussion is that he is officially a convicted felon.
