A conversation between Presidents Donald Trump and Nayib Bukele was captured by an open microphone. It heard that American citizens would be the next ones to be sent to the terrorism confinement center (CECOT), in El Salvador.
The open microphone captured the talk among the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and his counterpart from El Salvador, Nayib Bikele, in which they discuss the possibility of transferring Americans to the Salvadoran Megacárcel.
“Local criminals,” Astandans – are the following. The premises are the next ones, you will have to build about five more prisons, “Trump tells Bukele, who replies:” Yes, we have space. “
The conversation occurred during a meeting at the Oval Office.
Trump reiterated on Tuesday, April 15 that he would love to deport US citizens who commit violent crimes to a high security prison in El Salvador.
The approach was done on Monday, during his meeting at the White House with President Bukele, who has already welcomed hundreds of migrants from the United States, mainly Venezuelans.
The 78 -year -old republican president insisted on the idea of also sending US citizens, which would test the limits of fundamental rights in that country.
“I call their own harvest criminals,” Trump said, according to fragments of an interview with Fox News, a Spanish program that will be broadcast on Tuesday afternoon.
“Those who grew up and something went wrong, and they hit people in their heads with a baseball bat and push people in the subway,” he added.
“We are studying it and we want to do it. I would love to do it,” he said.
During his Monday meeting with Bukele, in the Oval Office, he said he asked the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, to examine the possibility of sending Americans to El Salvador.
Bukele agreed to receive US inmates. Shortly after Trump’s possession for a second mandate, in exchange for money. He received six million dollars.
Trump has already sent more than 250 migrants to that country, most under a law of 1798 that deprives them of due process and that, until March, had only been applied in times of war.
The Trump administration faces pressures in the case of a migrant deported by error from the United States to El Salvador.
Bukele ruled out the “absurd” idea of returning to Salvadoran Kilmar Abrego García, married to an American and father of a young child.
The United States Supreme Court has ordered the Government to facilitate its return, after recognizing that it was deported by an “administrative error.” The Trump administration insists that it is an irregular migrant and member of the MS-13 gang, although it has not been convicted or tests.