President Donald Trump would like to send Americans to foreign prisons.
Yep, you read that correctly.
The president of the United States wants to send U.S. citizens to prisons outside of the U.S., as he was overheard telling El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele that he would love to send “homegrown criminals” to his country next.
Technically, he already has.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was wrongly deported to the notorious El Salvadorian Terrorist Confinement Center despite never being tried or convicted of any crimes. On Monday, Bukele met with President Trump and laughed at the idea of returning Abrego Garcia, stating, “How could I return him to the United States? I smuggle him to the United States? Of course, I’m not going to do it. The question is preposterous.”
“I don’t have the power to return him to the United States. I’m not releasing — I mean, we’re not very fond of releasing terrorists into our country,” he added.
Abrego Garcia is not a terrorist and shouldn’t be labeled as one, but the Trump administration doesn’t care about brown people (old Kanye voice).
Bukele has allowed his country to become a holding ground for deported migrants and has been influential in helping President Trump ignore a Supreme Court order for the Trump administration to facilitate Abrego Garica’s return.
But the two men just laughed it up like old friends because they don’t care about one wrongly incarcerated brown man who they are sure committed some crime, even if they don’t have proof. Before reporters were allowed in the room, Trump discussed with Bukele the idea of sending American “criminals” accused of violent crimes to El Salvador and then added that they would need to build more prisons.
“Homegrown criminals next,” Trump said, according to a livestream posted by Bukele’s office, ABC News reports. “I said homegrowns are next, the homegrowns. You gotta build about five more places.”
Bukele was heard saying “alright,” and the white people in the room laughed.
“It’s not big enough,” Trump added.
The whole scene felt like a dystopian nightmare edited out of Invisible Man.
This isn’t the first time Donald Trump has posited the idea of sending American citizens to a foreign prison — which is completely unconstitutional, by the way, but when has this administration let the Constitution stop them from doing anything they want?
Trump told reporters that his team was studying the unconstitutional idea.
“If it’s a homegrown criminal, I have no problem,” Trump said. “Now, we’re studying the laws right now. Pam [Bondi] is studying. If we can do that, that’s good. And I’m talking about violent people. I’m talking about really bad people. Really bad people. Every bit as bad as the ones coming in,” he continued.
Do you hear that dog whistle? It’s the thing Donald Trump does when he wants to do something unconstitutional, like making Abrego Garcia a criminal despite him never being convicted of any crimes. It’s as old as the history of America, and if you still don’t know what it is, it’s lying or embellishing the truth.
Trump plays into the fears of whites by creating these Scooby Doo like monsters of people so that no one cares what happens to them; if you can dehumanize a person, then no one cares if you treat them like a dog.
Back in February, Secretary of State Marco Rubio (whose parents were exiled from Cuba and immigrated to America in 1956) called Bukele’s proposal to jail deported migrants in El Salvador “an act of extraordinary friendship.”
Bukele, who, during his meeting with the president, acted like a giddy schoolgirl in the presence of her crush, told President Donald Trump that he was “very eager to help” the Trump administration.
Bukele then left the White House missing his boo only to tweet, “I miss you already, President T” from his personal account shortly after the two men parted ways.
I hate everything.
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