Trump says he wants to imprison U.S. citizens in El Salvador. That's likely illegal

Trump on Monday insisted these would just be “violent people,” implying they would be those already convicted of crimes in the United States, though he's also floated it as a punishment for those who attack Tesla dealerships to protest his administration and its patron, billionaire Elon Musk. 

Pure, unadultered fascism. "Winning"!

She noted that even if the administration tries to transfer federal prisoners there, arguing they're already incarcerated, it could run afoul of the First Step Act that Trump himself championed and signed in 2018.

Yeah I don't think Trump remembers signing that (because he's too senile), or even knew what he was signing at the time (because he's too dumb).

As usual, bully boy Trump talks a big game but is ultimately full of the brown stuff.

Nothing is illegal in a dictatorship in concert with the judiciary.

Careful Trump, this might become your retirement home!

“it would likely even violate a provision of a law Trump himself signed during his first term.”

Says it all really.

Since when has 'being illegal' stopped Trump? He considers himself to be above the law and the US legal system may not have the means to rein him in.

Trump actually said, he wanted his people to look into it to ensure it was legal before attempting to do it. It isn't legal. So that's the end of it. There is no law that allows a President to expel a US citizen from the US, unless that citizenship was gained by lying on immigration and naturalization forms. For birth-right citizens, there is no law.

This topic isn't worth the article. Every lawyer knows it is illegal.

The fu..."every lawyer knows it is illegal "

No shortage of lawyers who would argue a flat earth if paid to do so.

When has the law every stopped him?

It's classic DJT, wants to message to voters he's deadly serious about fighting crime, after the Biden Admin fueled it, and he also wants to push the legal 'envelope'.

DJT likes the free media this story provides, he's taking decisive action to deport illegal aliens, especially criminals and views US criminals, as same risk to citizens

We're probably not far from the point where "likely illegal" means literally nothing.

Trump does not care about laws on these matters. Just like he wants to take the Panama Canal, Gaza, and Greenland.

I support it.

How easy for the Trump Administration to fabricate legal cases for anyone in the US to be deported or jailed in El Salvador. There are already cases of administrative errors and biases.

Once they are at El Salvador, the US Courts cannot do anything as legal ambiguity flies like the administration dome of protection.

The visit of El Salvador leader is a testament that there are more future devious plans by the Trump Administration to promote its agenda and throw out anyone who oppose them (either in jail or overseas).

If there is justice in this world, DJT will spend the rest of his life in a jail cell.

As usual, MAGA and Trump want to drape themselves in the American flag while doing the most un-American things.

Wanting to start putting their political enemies in a gulag for daring to criticize them.

Sorry to the rest of the world for the absolute demons that are currently in the White House. I promise, they don’t represent true Americans.

A way to bypass basic rights and comforts that prisoners would normally have in the U.S. and not in El Salvador.

Aside that operation and maintenance costs should be lower, particularly, for long stays.