President Donald Trump on Monday suggested sending U.S. citizens to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison, asking Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to “build about five more places” during a White House meeting. The comments sparked alarm among legal experts and criminal justice advocates, who cited potential violations of the Eighth Amendment’s ban on “cruel and unusual” punishment.
“The homegrowns are next,” Trump told Bukele in the Oval Office, referencing U.S. prisoners. The remark follows Trump’s controversial deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident wrongfully removed to El Salvador and currently held in CECOT — a facility criticized for overcrowding and alleged human rights abuses.
The Supreme Court recently ordered the Trump administration to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return. Bukele, however, rejected that request as “preposterous.”
Trump adviser Stephen Miller defended the deportation, again accusing Abrego Garcia of MS-13 affiliation without charges or convictions. The proposal to send U.S. citizens abroad for imprisonment has drawn comparisons to grievances listed in the Declaration of Independence.
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Amazing he wants to bring manufacturing back, but despite the cash cow of reprehensible privatized prisons in the southwest he wants to outsource that the El Salvador. He is the manifestation of everything wrong in this country and the embodiment of our worst characteristics.