Trump has suggested that “homegrown” criminals who have been convicted of certain crimes should be deported, but the idea raises significant legal questions.

If an immigrant who the government claims is a gang member can be deported to El Salvador without any due process rights, then why not a U.S. citizen?

That was the nightmarish scenario immigration advocates and constitutional law experts were considering on Monday after Donald Trump again pushed a provocative plan to deport U.S. citizens who have been convicted of unspecified crimes.

Trump discussed the issue in the White House with El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who has agreed to deposit people deported from the U.S. into a notorious prison.

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    4 days ago

    He also thinks it’s a crime to disagree with him. There will be lots of people being deported shortly before midterms.

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    “Nuh-uh, you can’t do that, it’s against the rules”

    Rules don’t mean a thing, kid. The bigger kid makes the rules as long as there are no adults in the room

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    Trump is a relic of a system that already died in 1-1-2000. 9-11 was a final attempt to enforce the 20th century Rockefeller economy. The system has collapsed. We had 25 years to adapt. Oh right and this article is about another loop in the law attempt.