A dear female friend of mine, who has likely voted Democrat her entire life, but isn’t a Woke Leftist, told me today that she’s worried that she could get deported from the U.S. I pointed out that she’s American, so this is impossible. She sent me this NPR article:
‘Homegrowns are next’: Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad
President Trump says his administration is actively exploring a proposal to detain U.S. citizens and send them to prisons in El Salvador. Speaking Monday, minutes before a press briefing alongside El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, Trump could be heard embracing the concept.“The homegrowns are next, the homegrowns. You’ve got to build about five more places,” Trump said to Bukele, an apparent reference to prison space that would be needed in El Salvador to house U.S. citizens.
El Salvador is already holding hundreds of people in a maximum-security prison. They were flown from the U.S. in recent weeks after being detained for allegedly lacking legal status or having gang affiliations.
Read through the article by this journalist Leftist activist, Brian Mann, and see if you can spot the lack of context presented by him.
I did my own research and it revealed a very different picture:
Yes, there is substantial truth to the NPR report you linked, based on multiple corroborating sources. The article accurately reflects public statements made by President Trump in April 2025, where he expressed interest in exploring the deportation and imprisonment of certain U.S. citizens—referred to as “homegrowns” or “homegrown criminals”—in foreign facilities, specifically in El Salvador. These comments were made during discussions with El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, and the White House confirmed at the time that the administration was studying the legal feasibility of such an approach for violent, repeat offenders.
Truth be told, I find it odd that Trump mentioned any of this, but the chance of my friend being deported is zero. Isn’t it “interesting” that none of this context was included in Mann’s diatribe. He is Exhibit ‘A’ of why we don’t hate the media nearly enough.
A friend of mine said we should privatize and off-shore Canada’s entire prison system.
Pay Russia or Saudi Arabia to imprison our prisoners for whatever it is that they charge. Most certainly it wouldn’t be the roughly $55,000.00 a year that federal inmates cost the taxpayer. Even if it was half that it would be worth the savings.
I used to think that we should contract out our prison services to Mexico but given the state of Justice in Canada, the Marxists in power would use it on political prisoners only.
northern canada is what I picture in my head when reading books about old soviet gulag. seems kind of silly to offshore it when you have so much prime land for work camps.
NPR. Yeah, didn’t Trump cancel all their Federal funding?
Perhaps this reporter has an axe to grind, and is desperate to remain relevant?
Speaking of context
I look forward to the day National Propaganda Radio goes off the air.
I’m sure driver sleeping fatalities will decrease.
Soft spoken men sound positively unnatural and creepy to me … listening to NPR actually raises my blood pressure like I’m a woman being sweet-talked by Ted Bundy
If they are violent, repeat offenders, why would any country take them? When they serve out their terms and get released, why accept the risk of them re-offending?
Deport Americans? Trump third term? Trump loves trolling stupid people.
scarp
You being trolled????
Well, he is now.
I vaguely recall Trump’s comments about this after a political statement disguised as an msm question was condemning the photo of Kristi Noem standing in front of shaved head prisoners at the infamous El Salvadoran prison.
Trump was praising the no nonsense Salvadoran prison … and musing about sending our hardened criminals who are coddled by US prisons to the Salvadoran prison. It was a tongue in cheek, in your face response to a highly biased political attack/question.
Trump needs a signal — perhaps an orange flag — to show that he’s not being serious, as it’s getting increasingly difficult to tell. Speculating or pondering outloud is not a desirable trait in a POTUS.
Clutch your pearls harder, Rat.
Does it concern you that Dear Leader is flailing like a beached whale?
Why would it concern him? Beached whales are pretty much the state of the art when it comes to flailing. If the President is meeting the highest standards, that suits me. Let me know if his performance deteriorates, will you.
“Deport Americans? Trump third term? Trump loves trolling stupid people.”
He really does.
(maybe a little too much, if you ask me…)
My first thought was a dear female friend of yours is a violent repeat offender? But then I realized she is American 🙂
For some of these people it will be their first and only chance for a trip outside the US. And it’ll be paid for.
There’s a whole host of reasons why this would be illegal and even unconstitutional.
Trump’s own First Step Act of 2018 requires federal prisoners to be housed as close as practical to their primary residence, within 500 driving miles where possible.
The US has a legal duty to house its prisoners in facilities that are as safe and humane as possible, no matter what crime they’ve committed. It would be impossible to ensure that in El Salvidor.
Constitutionally, it would almost certainly be judged as cruel and unusual.
Just like us Trump has hopes and dreams.
He probably shouldn’t give voice to his hopes and dreams before consulting lawyers.
Define cruel. Define unusual.
Here’s my idea of a cruel and unusual punishment:
Mexican cartels are not above murdering people for making trouble for the cartel, chopping their heads off and then dumping their headless corpses onto a busy freeway at rush hour, putting other innocent lives at risk, just to make an example.
That’s an unusual occurrence (fortunately) even in Mexico. Is it cruel? That’s the idea.
All that’s happening in CECOT is that gang footsoldiers are awaiting a fair trial by the laws of El Salvador in conditions that by design are not up to the standards of luxury hotels. Nowhere near as cruel as gangland justice, and not especially unusual treatment.
By the way. Nayib Bukele has often pointed out that foreigners only seem to care about the human rights of people that almost every Salvadoran lived in fear of and now almost every Salvadoran is well rid of. Presumably law-abiding Salvadorans have human rights too—including the roght to be spared cruel and unusual punishment meted out by the Salvadoran underworld.
Don’t argue with me, Bud, argue with the US courts. They have a long history of protecting prisoner rights using the 8th amendment:
Robinson vs California (1962)
Cooper vs Pate (1964)
Powell vs Texas (1968)
Furman vs Georgia (1972)
Estelle vs Gamble (1976)
Hutto v. Finney (1978)
Vitek v. Jones (1980)
…
and so on right up to modern day. Trump’s proposal would almost certainly be over the line for them.
You are SO conservative, Rat.
Your heart bleeds like a socialist. Because you are.
Such a fraud, typical leftist.
Conservatives follow the law. You aren’t conservative, just a low-grade authoritarian.
Aye, none of that low-grade stuff. If you’re going to be authoritarian, at least wear clean socks.
Now that Justin Trudeau, he had a competent valet. No problem with him.
Your “dear female friend” is either a blithering idiot or has just copped to criminal activity that just might get her sent on a lengthy vacation to El Salvador.
Or both.
Killer Marmot protecting our rights again.
What a nice little vermin.
FILTHY LIBERALS have no sense, no sense of humour. Attention Stupid people and Marmots, This is a Red Flag Warning- ∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆ THIS NEXT SENTENCE IS SARCASM™ ∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆
KM That means I talk down to stupid people.
KM You haven’t been yourself lately, we’ve noticed the improvement…
More of a Reaganite conservative, which make my views about as trendy as New Wave.
And I’m not “protecting rights.” I’m telling you what the law is concerning Trump’s proposal. It’s likely illegal in a dozen different ways. Don’t blame me — I don’t make the law.
BS.
An Orchard “conservative”.
You’re an NDPer, thru and thru, Rat.
You’re a fraud, no surprise.