President Donald Trump said he “would love” to send homegrown and violent American criminals — “extreme cases” — to foreign prisons, most notably in El Salvador, if it were “permissible by law.”
Trump made the comments in an interview with Time magazine that was published Friday. Trump first floated the idea during an Oval Office press conference with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele earlier this month.
“I would love to do that if it were permissible by law. We’re looking into that. When I have a person, these would be extreme cases,” Trump told Time. “When I have a person that is a 28-time in-and-out person that goes out and tries to kill people every time he or she is out, I would have no problem with doing that whatsoever. We’re talking about career criminals that are horrible people that we house, and we have to take care of for 50 years, while they suffer because they killed people.”
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