Very Bad! Trump Treacherously Considers Deporting AMERICAN Criminals To Offshore Prisons
The wanton abandonment of Constitutionality and subsequent assault on the civil liberties of Americans that disregard entails is an embodiment of the festering corruption plaguing Washington. While President Donald J. Trump has promised to be the panacea that would rid the United States of that disease for the better part of a decade since first being elected as president in 2016, many of the actions of his second presidential administration convey that he has become infected himself instead of proving to be any such cure. Following a stunning admission by the president that his administration is considering deporting US citizens to be imprisoned in El Salvador, the prognosis that Trump's return to the White House will usher in a return to the rule of law looks to have been met by its death knell.
Examples of the Trump administration's attack on civil liberties have been made more palatable to its supporters by virtue of being directed at 2 particular individuals who are not US citizens: anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil and alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Ábrego García. Khalil, a Green Card and student visa holder, has been engaged in deportation proceedings since being detained by ICE for organizing protests against the State Of Israel on the campus of Columbia University.
Despite the Supreme Court decision upholding Xinis' order to return Garcia from El Salvador, the Trump administration made its recalcitrance clear when President Of El Savador Nayib Bukele confirmed he would not cooperate with the US to return Garcia during his visit to the Oval Office. Bukele justified his decision by rationalizing that doing so would be tantamount to smuggling a terrorist into the US, siding with the Trump administration in its rejection of the Supreme Court decision. However, that apparent breach of the separation of powers enshrined in the US Constitution was somehow not the most stunning revelation that took place during the meeting.
While speaking to reporters alongside Bukele, Trump stated his desire to deport US Citizens (!) guilty of violent crimes to the same types of Salvadorian prisons that Kilmar García was sent to. While Trump tempered the zeal of his stunning admission by qualifying it with the condition that only the most violent criminals in the US would face deportation to El Salvador, his ominous statement utterly proved the axiom that an attack on civil liberties is an attack on all Americans.
The unprecedented nature of Trump's aim to deport US citizens is so brazenly unconstitutional on its face that the basis by which it is illegal has not even been contemplated. Considerations on jurisdiction, due process, and the Eighth Amendment of the Bill Of Rights that protects against cruel and unusual punishment are just a few of the legal arguments that would neuter the Trump administration's self-admitted aims to do so. Trump's premise that US citizens can be deported if found guilty of certain crimes is so absurd that it even would violate legislation he signed into law in 2018. Trump signed the First Step Act into law in December of 2018 after supporting the bill at the behest of his son-in-law and former special advisor Jared Kushner. The First Step Act requires the federal government to house federal inmates as close to their homes as possible to allow their families to visit them, even requiring the transfer of prisoners more than 500 miles away from their homes to a facility closer to family. The blatant contradiction presented by deporting US citizens to El Salvador with the Trump-backed First Step Act highlights the administration's lack of consideration that went into suggesting the idea.
News of the Trump administration's plan to explore deporting American citizens comes at a time where many of the president's longtime supporters have started to raise doubts over whether or not his rhetoric on mass deportations of illegal immigrants will ever come to fruition. In February 2025, 11,000 deportations were done compared to the 12,000 that took place in February 2024. At the present average of daily deportations, it will take nearly 100 years for the 20 million-plus illegal immigrants who have entered into the US to be deported, a timeframe that highlights the lack of progress made on this fundamental component of Trump's domestic policy.
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