El Salvador's President has Offered to Jail American Criminals

Tuesday, February 04, 2025

El Salvador's president has offered to "house in his jails dangerous American criminals" and accept deportees of any nationality, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday night.

Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 10:31 AM | 22 COMMENTS | permalink

El Salvador to accept US deportees of any nationality, including imprisoned Americans, in unprecedented deal, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says

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-- CNN (@cnn.com) February 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM

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The Trump administration. One big ole Anti American crime syndicate. How far we have fallen in this nation.

#1 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-02-04 02:32 AM

The new US Secretary of State on the world stage.

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-02-04 03:48 AM

The Trump Crime Family (TCF) is in charge of the US, like a nefarious reincarnation of the Romanovs. Look what Trumpf got away with before, and there's more to come. Trumpf's cronies and family will all be protected by corrupt judges like Aileen Cannon. Thanks to the Goniff-in-Chief, the US truly has become a banana republic with nuclear warheads.

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-02-04 03:57 AM

The Trump administration. One big ole Anti American crime syndicate. How far we have fallen in this nation.
#1 | Posted by LauraMohr

"Not my fault. I tried sitting on my butt on election day/voting Ralph Nader/Jill Stein as hard as I could."
-Anonymous

#4 | Posted by censored at 2025-02-04 10:53 AM

Blatant violation of the Eighth Amendment.

#5 | Posted by qcp at 2025-02-04 11:07 AM

Blatant violation of the Eighth Amendment.
#4 | Posted by qcp

How so? Cruel and unusual to send convicts overseas to serve their sentence?

#6 | Posted by censored at 2025-02-04 11:18 AM

Fish rots from the head down.

#7 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-02-04 12:28 PM

Does this include the donald? I would love to see him in the same lockup as the local ---------ers.

#8 | Posted by bat4255 at 2025-02-04 12:45 PM

Huh. The country responsible for the MS-13 gang? Sounds like -------- to me.

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-04 01:31 PM

Will never happen. Operators of private US prisons will complain if they don't get to house these folks. Lawyers for any convicts sent offshore will end up with a class-action case arguing for their clients' 8th Amendment rights. Cruel? Probably. Unusual? Certainly.

Memo to all you Central American governments: You can keep L'il Marco. No need to send him back at the end of his visit...

#10 | Posted by catdog at 2025-02-04 01:35 PM

So much winning in the last few weeks makes one proud to be a Trump supporter.

#11 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-02-04 02:44 PM

So much winning in the last few weeks makes one proud to be a Trump supporter.
#11 | Posted by fortfisher

It's pretty impressive how far and fast Trump is moving.

Maybe Dems will take a hint and man up next time they have control of the entire government.

#12 | Posted by censored at 2025-02-04 03:46 PM

After Trump there will never be another democrat president voted in again.

#13 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-02-04 04:10 PM

After Trump there will never be another democrat president voted in again.
#13 | Posted by fortfisher

That's quite a declaration. I remember hearing similar words from Dems after January 6th. But here were are ...

#14 | Posted by censored at 2025-02-04 04:14 PM

The global celebrations are going to be spectacular when the------------- croaks.

#15 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-04 04:19 PM

I'm picturing the end of Return of the Jedi. (Original version, of course)

#16 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-02-04 04:20 PM

So American has finally found an export that certain countries will accept. The as of yet undisclosed part of the deal is how many tens of thousands of dollars per prisoner will the US be paying El Salvador in exchange. I guarantee that if this really proceeds, the amount will be in the tens of millions. We once again are going to be fleeced thanks to Trump.

#17 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-02-04 05:02 PM

How so? Cruel and unusual to send convicts overseas to serve their sentence?
#6 | Posted by censored

The US mandates that prisoners be allowed at least 4 hours of visitation time per month. Who can visit federal inmates is fairly restrictive. Generally they need to have had some sort of established relationship prior to incarceration to get onto the visitors list. Transferring US prisoners thousands of miles away would in practice make it near impossible for them to receive visitation from family, friends and legal council. That sounds cruel and unusual to me.
Further complicating the matter is the First Step Act that Trump signed into law in 2018. That law requires the Bureau of Prisons to house inmates in a facility as close to their primary residence as possible.

Then again the Supreme Court gave Trump immunity from prosecution for Presidential acts so who is to stop him from doing it anyway?

#18 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-02-05 01:48 AM

El Salvador's president has offered to "house in his jails dangerous American criminals" and accept deportees of any nationality, "but especially the hot one with the big melons."

#19 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-02-05 06:07 AM

The US mandates that prisoners be allowed at least 4 hours of visitation time per month. Who can visit federal inmates is fairly restrictive. Generally they need to have had some sort of established relationship prior to incarceration to get onto the visitors list. Transferring US prisoners thousands of miles away would in practice make it near impossible for them to receive visitation from family, friends and legal council. That sounds cruel and unusual to me. Further complicating the matter is the First Step Act that Trump signed into law in 2018. That law requires the Bureau of Prisons to house inmates in a facility as close to their primary residence as possible. Then again the Supreme Court gave Trump immunity from prosecution for Presidential acts so who is to stop him from doing it anyway?
#18 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce

Interesting! I was unfamiliar with all of that. Thanks for sharing.

Much of that sounds like non-constitutional requirements, though. And, even if they were constitutional requirements, I'm sure they would no longer be after Trump's SCOTUS got done with the case.

#20 | Posted by censored at 2025-02-05 10:54 AM

#20 | Posted by censored

My father did a nickel in Marion during my teen years. That's how I once met Pete Rose.
Learned a little about prisoner rights then and it has remained an interest of mine.

#21 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-02-05 03:38 PM

Much of that sounds like non-constitutional requirements, though. And, even if they were constitutional requirements, I'm sure they would no longer be after Trump's SCOTUS got done with the case.
#20 | Posted by censored

I no longer have confidence that this current Court has any respect for the Constitution or established precedent. I believe they would rubber stamp summary executions if Trump so ordered them.

#22 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-02-05 03:43 PM

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