The Trump administration has sent hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members to a notorious facility in El Salvador, since March, but the president has now suggested that „homegrown criminals“ could also be sent there.
Donald Trump has suggested „homegrown criminals“ in the US could be deported to jails in El Salvador – saying the US attorney general is „studying the laws right now“.
He made the comment while speaking alongside the Central American nation’s president, Nayib Bukele, in the White House.
The Trump administration has sent hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members to CECOT, a maximum security prison in El Salvador, since March.
When asked about the deportations – which were briefly blocked by a US court last month – Mr Trump said: „I’d like to go a step further.
