President Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday that he'd love to take violent U.S.-born criminals imprisoned in the country and deport them to El Salvador.
This comes after Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele, who infamously stabilized his country from being one of the highest-crime areas on earth a few years ago using drastic authoritarian crackdowns to round up gang members, extended an offer to incarcerate foreign migrants in the U.S. and even U.S. citizens in his "mega-prison."
It also comes as Trump gears up to begin shipping migrants to the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison facility.
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Asked by reporters about Bukele's offer, Trump said the cost would be "a very small fee compared to what we pay to private prison," but "We'll have to find that out legally. I'm just saying if we had the legal right to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat. I don't know if we do or not."
"We could make deals where we'd get these animals out of our country," said Trump. "And, you know, if you take the shooters, the people that hit old ladies in the back of the head with a baseball bat when they're not looking, they walk down the street. The people that — and you see it, the people that take out a gun and shoot you for no reason at all. If we could get these animals out of our country and put them in a different country under the supervision of somebody, that made a relatively small fee to maintain these people, because you know what? These are criminals. You call them hardened criminals. They've been in jail 40 times. There's 142 times. And every time the person gets out, it's a he. Every time he gets out, he commits another crime within 24 hours."
"That person that has been arrested 42 times or 22 times or 17 times and is all in for manslaughter and everything else, and only gets out because of a very weak judicial system that only goes after people like Trump," he continued on.
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