Is El Salvador CECOT Prison Replacing Guantanamo Bay Where Prisoners Have No Rights to Due Process?

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Is El Salvador CECOT Prison Replacing Guantanamo Bay Where Prisoners Have No Rights to Due Process?

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele was in the Oval Office with President Trump today, and said that he does not plan to return a Maryland man whom the Trump administration admitted was mistakenly deported to El Salvador after an immigration judge had previously ordered that he NOT be deported there, and where his life is allegedly in danger.

The Trump Administration, which the Supreme Court ruled 9 to 0 had to return the man who was deported illegally, is taking the position that it has no authority over El Salvador, and is unable to do so.

Even more concerning, Trump today said he wanted to send U.S. Citizens to this prison in El Salvador as well.

He told reporters today that he was open to deporting U.S. citizens if they had committed “violent, criminal acts.”

According to the Washington Post:

Trump also told reporters on Monday that he was open to deporting U.S. citizens if they had committed violent, criminal acts.

“If it’s a homegrown criminal, I have no problem,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “We’re studying the laws right now, Pam [Bondi, the attorney general] is studying. If we can do that, that’s good.”

U.S. laws, of course, do not allow a U.S. Citizen to be arbitrarily deported, so this is just code speak to Pam Bondi to “find me an emergency order I can invoke to bypass the laws and do it by executive order,” his #1 playbook for ignoring The Constitution of the United States, which he began in 2020 with the PREP Act emergency orders to rush experimental “vaccines” into the market that would never have been approved by the FDA under current laws.

So there you have it. No conspiracy theories, just the plain FACT that Donald Trump is now on the record as saying he wants to deport U.S. Citizens whom he declares are “criminals.”

This should come as no surprise based on the Trump Administration’s actions so far under Trump 2.0, which has included rounding up Green Card permanent residents who are here legally, and have also reportedly had ICE detain U.S. Citizens as well, including Americans from Puerto Rico and indigenous native Americans living on reservations.

Several members of Congress have requested more information from Trump about how many U.S. Citizens are currently being detained by ICE, but they have allegedly refused to answer these Congressional inquiries, according to a new report published by Pro Publica. Congress Has Demanded Answers to ICE Detaining Americans. The Administration Has Responded With Silence.