President Donald Trump suggested Monday that the United States could pay a “small fee” to foreign countries to imprison Americans who are repeat criminal offenders, floating a kind of modern-day penal colony.
Trump billed the idea as a cost-saving measure in remarks at a conference for House Republicans in Miami.
Trump said doing so would allow the federal government to avoid using U.S. jails "for massive amounts of money" and private prisons, which he said “charge us a fortune.”
He presented the idea as separate from efforts that are underway now to deport migrants living in the United States illegally who are said to have criminal records. Trump acknowledged that he would need to get such a plan "approved."
Posted by John3262005
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If my options were probably dying in a shootout with cops or getting sent to prison in El Salvador I am taking my chances with the shootout 100/100 times.
The incentive is just terrible even without the obvious unconstitutionality of shipping American citizens abroad to serve sentences
Literally cruel and unusual punishment.
This sounds like an idea Bukele put in his head, given that El Salvador is negotiating with the administration to be a “safe third country” for non-Salvadoran deportees.
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!ping AUS
Here we go again.
Tis of a wild Colonial Boy, Jack Doolan was his name,
Of poor but honest parents he was from the state of Maine.
He was his father’s only hope, his mother’s pride and joy,
And dearly did his parents love the wild Colonial Boy
Lemme guess – Rwanda?
YOU ARE GOING TO BRASIL!1!!
Is actually policy now? Bash my head in with a rock.
So that’s why he wants Greenland.
What the fuck is going on? Who is pitching that ideas to him?
This is so much crazier than I ever expected it to be and we’re only in week 2.
Cruel, unusual, and evil.
Hold on. He wants to send Americans to prison in other countries because it costs too much to send them to prison in America… paying American wages… and meeting American standards… but we got to tariffs our trading partners to bring the American jobs home because… it is cheaper to make goods elsewhere… hmmm
Tangentially relted, but I do think the american continent would benefit from a prison to place the most dangerous and or hard to hold criminals from accros the continent, namely drug cartel leaders with corrupt influence in their home nation, on a one big prison somewhere.