President Donald Trump meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador within the Oval Workplace of the White Home this week.
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President Donald Trump meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador within the Oval Workplace of the White Home this week.
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The Trump administration’s transfer to ship immigrants to a most safety jail in El Salvador is the topic of a number of on-going fights in courtroom.
However in an Oval Workplace assembly with the Salvadoran president this week, President Trump was already wanting forward.
“We also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways, that hit elderly ladies on the back of the head with a baseball bat when they’re not looking, that are absolute monsters. I’d like to include them in the group of people to get them out of the country,” Trump mentioned.
Trump later clarified that by “homegrown criminals” he meant U.S. residents.
No president has tried to do precisely what Trump is proposing.
On this episode, we hear from somebody who argues it is wildly unconstitutional.
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This episode was produced by Connor Donevan.
It was edited by Courtney Dorning.
Our government producer is Sami Yenigun.
