6 h. ago Trump allies stumped over his secret plan to deport 'homegrown' criminals

Donald Trump's allies are scratching their heads over the president considering sending Americans convicted of violent crimes to the notorious El Salvadorian prison.

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8 h. ago Trump would be ‘very happy’ to send ‘homegrowns’ to El Salvador’s prisons. It’s ‘incredibly illegal’

Immigration law experts and constitutional scholars are warning against the president’s threat to exile citizens in foreign jails

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8 h. ago Ice deports Venezuelan teen despite reportedly knowing he was not a target

Merwil Gutiérrez sent from New York to El Salvador prison although family says he has no criminal history or gang tiesA 19-year-old Venezuelan in New York City reportedly was apprehended by Trump administration immigration authorities and deported to El Salvador despite agents’ realizing he was not whom they meant to arrest in a targeted operation.Merwil Gutiérrez, whose family opened an asylum case after arriving in the US, was deported from the Bronx to the notorious Cecot prison in El Salvador despite his relatives’ insistence that he has no gang ties or criminal history, according to Documented, a newsroom dedicated to telling the stories of immigrants in New York City. The Gutiérrez family says it has been left without information or answers. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Fox News host teaches Donald Trump how to say ‘Make America Great Again’ in Spanish

During a friendly interview that will air on Fox News’ Spanish-language channel, the president also doubled down on his proposal to send American citizens to El Salvador prisons for unspecified crimes.

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21 h. ago Donald Trump tells El Salvador president to build more prisons for American criminals as 'home growns are next'

During a meeting with President Nayib Bukele on Monday Donald Trump urged him to build more jails as he wanted "to go a step further" and start sending American criminals to to Salvadoran prisons

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24 h. ago Donald Trump will NOT return Kilmar Ábrego García who was wrongly deported to gang prison

Kilmar Ábrego García was wrongly deported to El Salvador, where he is currently housed at a notorious gang prison, but pressure grows on Donald Trump to "facilitate" the man's return

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29 h. ago ‘Home growns are next’: Trump tells El Salvador president to build more jails for U.S. citizens

Trump says he’s ‘all for’ jailing American citizens in El Salvador’s notorious mega prison

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29 h. ago The Trump administration trapped a wrongly deported man in a catch

The US says it can’t aid in his return as he’s in El Salvador; El Salvador says to help would be like ‘smuggling’ him backIt is difficult to find a term more fitting for the fate of the Maryland father Kilmar Abrego García than Kafkaesque.Abrego García is one of hundreds of foreign-born men deported under the Trump administration to the Cecot mega-prison in El Salvador as part of a macabre partnership with the self-declared “world’s coolest dictator”, Nayib Bukele. Continue reading...

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30 h. ago Trump and El Salvador leader attack 'preposterous' media in epic showdown over deported Maryland man

President Donald Trump and El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele led a united defense in the Oval Office as they defended keeping a Maryland man in a notorious megaprison.

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31 h. ago El Salvador President Nayib Bukele says he won’t return man who was mistakenly deported from U.S.

Supreme Court ordered Trump administration to ‘facilitate’ Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return from Salvadoran prison

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32 h. ago El Salvador President Nayib Bukele won’t commit to returning man who was mistakenly deported from U.S.

Supreme Court ordered Trump administration to ‘facilitate’ Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return from Salvadoran prison

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32 h. ago El Salvador president refuses to order return of wrongly deported US man

Trump officials claim they’re not legally bound to bring Kilmar Abrego García back despite supreme court rulingThe president of El Salvador said in a meeting with Donald Trump in the White House on Monday that he would not order the return of a Maryland man who was deported in error to a Salvadorian mega-prison.“The question is preposterous,” Nayib Bukele said in the Oval Office on Monday, where he was welcomed by Trump and spoke with the president and members of his cabinet. “How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I’m not going to do it.” Continue reading...

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32 h. ago El Salvador president refuses to return wrongly deported man with US protected status

Trump officials claim they’re not legally bound to bring Kilmar Abrego García back despite supreme court rulingThe president of El Salvador said in a meeting with Donald Trump in the White House on Monday that he would not order the return of a Maryland man who was deported in error to a Salvadorian mega-prison.“The question is preposterous,” Nayib Bukele said in the Oval Office on Monday, where he was welcomed by Trump and spoke with the president and members of his cabinet. “How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I’m not going to do it.” Continue reading...

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33 h. ago Bukele won’t commit to returning man who was mistakenly deported from U.S.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to ‘facilitate’ the man’s return after he was deported and incarcerated in a Salvadoran prison

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54 h. ago Another 10 ICE deportees sent to El Salvador as Supreme Court orders wrongly deported Maryland father to be returned from prison

U.S. accused of sending hundreds to notorious Salvadoran prison, most of them without criminal records

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62 h. ago Trump’s already skirting due process. Now he’s musing about deporting citizens | Moira Donegan

Amid a series of sadistic expulsions, the White House says Trump has reflected kicking Americans out of the countryThey’re rounding people up, and you could be next. The Trump administration has largely dispensed with due process rights in deporting immigrants, who are now being targeted for their protected speech, having their visas or green cards summarily cancelled without process and sometimes without notice, and getting kidnapped off the streets and hustled into vans so that they can be shipped to “detention centers” too far away for their loved ones, or their lawyers, to visit them.Some immigrants are being targeted for disappearance because they oppose Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, an opinion that it is now physically dangerous, instead of merely unpopular, to hold. But others the government seems to be seizing almost at random. More than 200 Venezuelan nationals have been seized and deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador, rendered outside of US jurisdiction in...

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69 h. ago Trump says fate of ICE deportees at notorious prison up to El Salvador president

DOJ confirms mistakenly deported Maryland dad is 'alive and secure' at notorious prison as Trump set to meet Salvadoran leader Monday

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3 d. ago Trump lawyers confirm wrongly deported Maryland man in El Salvador prison

Administration fails to show they have taken any steps to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego García The Trump administration on Saturday confirmed to a federal judge that a Maryland man who was wrongly deported last month remains confined in a notorious prison in El Salvador.However, the White House filing did not address the judge’s demands that the administration detail the steps it was taking to return Kilmar Abrego García to the United States. The White House only confirmed that García was under the authority of the El Salvador government. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago US won't say whether it's facilitating return of mistakenly deported man, despite judge's order

The Trump administration has confirmed to a federal judge that a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported last month remained confined in a notorious prison in El Salvador

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4 d. ago Judge directs administration to take all available steps for return of mistakenly deported man

A federal judge is directing the Trump administration to “take all available steps to facilitate the return” of a Maryland man who was mistakenly sent to a notorious El Salvador prison

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