Trump has suggested that “homegrown” criminals who have been convicted of certain crimes should be deported, but the idea raises significant legal questions.
If an immigrant who the government claims is a gang member can be deported to El Salvador without any due process rights, then why not a U.S. citizen?
That was the nightmarish scenario immigration advocates and constitutional law experts were considering on Monday after Donald Trump again pushed a provocative plan to deport U.S. citizens who have been convicted of unspecified crimes.
Trump discussed the issue in the White House with El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who has agreed to deposit people deported from the U.S. into a notorious prison.
You cannot “deport” U.S. citizens to El Salvador or any other country. You can, however, kidnap and exile them. Let’s respect language, oh great media overlords.
They shouldn’t have been using the word “deport” in the first place for sending people to prison. “Deport” implies sending back to their own country, not imprisoning them
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