Attorney general dodges question on Trump proposal to jail US citizens in El Salvador
by Sam Levine in New York from US news | The Guardian on (#6WMYA)
Trump proposed that homegrown criminals' should be deported, an idea that experts say is clearly illegal
The US attorney general declined on Tuesday to say whether Donald Trump's suggestion of removing US citizens to El Salvador was legal, in alarming remarks about what experts think is an obviously illegal idea.
Trump proposed the idea on Monday in the Oval Office during a visit with El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, who has been accepting people deported from the US and imprisoning them in a gigantic facility notorious for human rights abuses.
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