Earlier this month, Donald Trump admitted that he was considering deporting US citizens to El Salvador’s infamous mega prison.
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CECOT is considered the largest prison in the Americas and can home up to 40,000 inmates.
He said: “We have some horrible criminals, American-grown and born, and if we have somebody that bops an old woman over the head, if we have somebody that is in jail 20 times and goes back and shoots people all over the place and then has a bad judge or a bad prosecutor that do nothing about them, all they worry about is politics, I think if we could get El Salvador or somebody to take them, I’d be very happy with it, but I have to see what the law says.”
The mass deportations were given the go-ahead after the president brought back a rare 18th-century wartime legislation, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, allowing the US to deport migrants who have been accused of being in gangs or committing crimes without any court proceedings taking place.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on Tuesday (April 8) that that this could also be the fate of the worst US-born criminals in and out of prison.
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