Trump wants to deport some US citizens to El Salvador

By Gram Slattery and Sarah Morland

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said connected Monday helium wants to deport immoderate convulsive criminals who are U.S. citizens to El Salvador, wherever they would beryllium incarcerated nether an statement with that country's government.

Trump's spoke to journalists astatine the White House during the authorities sojourn of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.

The remarks were 1 of the clearest signals yet that the U.S. president is superior astir deporting naturalized and U.S.-born citizens, a connection that has alarmed civilian rights advocates and is viewed by galore ineligible scholars arsenic unconstitutional.

Trump said helium would lone spell done with the thought if his medication determined it was legal. It was not wide what level of owed process an American would person earlier being deported.

"We ever person to obey the laws, but we besides person homegrown criminals that propulsion radical into subways, that deed aged ladies connected the backmost of the caput with a shot bat erstwhile they're not looking, that are implicit monsters," Trump said.

"I'd similar to see them successful the radical of radical to get them retired of the country, but you'll person to beryllium looking astatine the laws connected that."

Trump told reporters past week that helium "loved" the thought of deporting citizens to El Salvador, aft Bukele said the state was unfastened to lodging U.S. prisoners.

White House property caput Karoline Leavitt aboriginal confirmed that the connection was connected the table, saying Trump had "simply floated" the idea.

The Trump medication has sent hundreds of migrants accused of transgression affiliations to El Salvador's harsh mega-prison known arsenic the Terrorism Confinement Center, nether often-contested ineligible authorities. The U.S. is paying El Salvador $6 million.

The highest-profile deportee, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national, was deported contempt a judicial bid protecting him from removal. The U.S. authorities has described his deportation arsenic an administrative error.

The U.S. Supreme Court past week upheld a little tribunal ruling directing the medication to "facilitate and effectuate" his return. But it said the word "effectuate" was unclear and mightiness transcend the authorization of the territory tribunal judge.

In a tribunal filing connected Sunday, the medication said it was not obligated to assistance Abrego Garcia get retired of situation successful El Salvador. Bukele said during the Monday gathering with Trump that helium would neither instrumentality Abrego Garcia nor merchandise him successful El Salvador, and Trump said helium was not funny successful asking for Abrego Garcia back.

(Reporting by Gram Slattery and Sarah Morland; Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Cynthia Osterman)