Trump Wants to Deport U.S. Citizens to El Salvador

Trump floats deporting U.S. citizens to El Salvador

After sending hundreds of Venezuelan nationals to a maximum security prison in El Salvador with virtually no due process, today, while meeting with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump floated the idea of deporting “homegrown criminals,” meaning American citizens, to those facilities.

 

MSNBC Lawrence O’Donnell discusses the shocking lawlessness and cruelty of the Trump administration’s position that they can abduct anyone, take them to El Salvador and have no obligation to ever brink them back home to the United States

 

Trump exposed in hot mic moment planning further abuse of power

Rachel Maddow shares video of Donald Trump talking with El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele about his intention to deport American citizens to prison in El Salvador

 

‘It’s all made up!’: Hayes breaks down ‘sheer lawlessness’ of Trump deportation case

“There isn’t a single part of the entire thing that stands up to the smallest amount of scrutiny. The whole thing, the entire enterprise is just sheer lawlessness,” says Chris Hayes on the Trump admin deporting people to the El Salvador mega-prison.

 

Man with no criminal record who was seeking asylum deported, sent to El Salvador prison

CBS News obtained an internal government list of the 238 Venezuelan immigrants deported and sent to a notorious El Salvador prison. A woman’s husband, who was an asylum seeker, was on the list. CBS News’ Lilia Luciano has the story.