{"id":1110,"date":"2025-04-15T15:43:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T15:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenewamore.com\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2025-04-18T14:28:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T14:28:23","slug":"bondi-deflects-on-legality-of-sending-us-citizens-to-foreign-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thenewamore.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/bondi-deflects-on-legality-of-sending-us-citizens-to-foreign-prisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Bondi deflects on legality of sending US citizens to foreign prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Attorney General Pam Bondi sidestepped a question about whether President Trump\u2019s openness to holding U.S. citizens in foreign prisons would be legal, instead referencing the potential need for more prisons in the country.<\/p>\n

During a meeting with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele on Monday, Trump was asked whether he would consider sending U.S. citizens convicted of violent crimes to El Salvador’s most notorious prison, as his administration has done with hundreds of deported immigrants.<\/p>\n

Trump said if U.S. citizens committed heinous acts of crime, “I\u2019m all for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an interview on Fox News Monday night, host Jesse Watters asked Bondi whether that would be “legal.”<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, Jesse, these are Americans who he is saying who have committed the most heinous crimes in our country. And crime is going to decrease dramatically because he has given us a directive to make America safe again,\u201d Bondi said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese people need to be locked up as long as they can, as long as the law allows. We’re not going to let them go anywhere.  And if we have to build more prisons in our country, we will do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Responding to a reporter’s question about detaining U.S. citizens abroad, Trump appeared to reference a case<\/a> of an 82-year-old Brooklyn woman who was raped in her home.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they\u2019re criminals, and if they hit people with baseball bats over the head that happen to be 90 years old, if they rape 87-year-old women in Coney Island, Brooklyn, yeah. Yeah that includes them,\u201d Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. \u201cWhy, do you think there\u2019s a special category of person? They\u2019re as bad as anyone that comes in. We have bad ones, too. And, I\u2019m all for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump framed the potential deportation of violent American citizens as a way to save money.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it\u2019s a homegrown criminal, I have no problem,\u201d Trump said. \u201cNow, we\u2019re studying the laws right now. Pam is studying. If we can do that, that\u2019s good. And I\u2019m talking about violent people. I\u2019m talking about really bad people. Really bad people. Every bit as bad as the ones coming in.\u201d<\/p>\n

U.S. citizens are entitled to due process, including review by a judge, before being sentenced to time in prison.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s comments came as the White House argues it lacks the authority to seek the return of a Maryland man and Salvadoran national, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported despite a court order barring his return to El Salvador. <\/p>\n

Trump administration officials have said they are unable to do so without cooperation from the Salvadoran government, and Bukele said Monday he does not intend to return him<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bondi during the Fox News interview criticized “liberal reporters” for describing Abrego Garcia, a married father of three who worked as a sheet metal apprentice, as a “Maryland man.”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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