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An immigration expert was taken aback by a CNN report that the Trump administration is looking beyond El Salvador for a "safe third country" to ship undocumented migrants.

CNN correspondent Priscilla Alvarez posted to X on Wednesday afternoon, "Trump admin has discussed with Libya and Rwanda the possibility of sending migrants who have criminal records to those two countries, sources tell me + @kylieatwood. Trump officials are also hoping to enter negotiations with Libya to strike a safe third country agreement."

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, an immigration lawyer and senior fellow with the American Immigration Council, responded, "Whoa. Using Libya and Rwanda as a deportation spot for people from the Western Hemisphere would be unprecedented, and declaring LIBYA a 'safe third country' to deport asylum seekers to would be the height of absurdity."...

President Donald Trump read "a little biography" of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from a slip of paper during an Oval Office meeting Monday, offering it as proof that the Maryland man was a criminal who deserved to be held in an El Salvadoran prison.

Trump was speaking about Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), who traveled to the Central American country this week to check on Abrego Garcia's condition. The president then asked press secretary Karoline Leavitt to retrieve a piece of paper from another room.

"If you would, Karoline, maybe go into the room and see if you can find that little slip. I wrote some things down," the president said....