New Republic - Donald Trump doubled down Monday on his unconstitutional threat to deport U.S. citizens to foreign gulags. During a press conference
with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who has already struck a $6
million deal to detain noncitizens the U.S. government alleges are gang
members, Trump once again raised his desire to deport anyone, regardless
of citizenship.
“I’d like to go a step further, I mean, I say, I said it to Pam [Bondi]—I don’t know what the laws are, we always have to obey the laws—but we also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways, that hit elderly ladies in the back of the head with a baseball bat when they’re not looking, that are absolute monsters. I’d like to include them in the group of people, to get ’em out of the country, but you’ll have to be looking at the laws on that, Steph—” Trump said, referring to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, who was standing just feet away.
Is Trump’s plot to exile U.S. citizens legal? Of course it isn’t.
“No law allows a federal court to sentence a defendant to serve their sentence overseas. Nor is there any statute that allows the president to unilaterally remove a U.S. citizen to another country at a whim,” wrote Matt Ford for The New Republic Monday.
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