Dem Rep. Torres: ‘Any American’ Could Be Abducted, Deported, Tortured Under Trump

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxz9U8PWkps&ab_channel=JayPirch

Pam Key 15 Apr 2025

Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY) claimed Tuesday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” that “any American” could be abducted, deported and tortured under President Donald Trump’s administration.

Host Wolf Blitzer said, “You are introducing a bill that would require the U.S. to secure the return of mistakenly deported individuals. Why is this necessary and will you have any Republican support?”

Torres said, “I’m skeptical that we will have Republican support because the Republican party is fully captive to Donald Trump. But of all the abuses of Donald Trump’s presidency, there is no greater threat to liberty than his complete contempt for due process. You know, without due process, what stops Donald Trump from wrongfully labeling any American as a non-citizen gang member and abducting them in the dead of night and rendering them to a foreign prison to be tortured? You know, Donald Trump’s actions set a dangerous precedent for our democracy.”

He added, “If there is a foreign leader like the president of El Salvador who refuses to comply with an order from a federal court to release someone who’s been wrongfully deported, there should be geopolitical consequences, and those consequences should be swift and severe. It should include the suspension of relations with the United States and the termination of foreign assistance.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/04/15/dem-rep-torres-any-american-could-be-abducted-deported-tortured-under-trump/

[Wingnut]

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[mystery-ak]

Trump open to sending violent American criminals to El Salvador prisons
'We are looking into it ... I would love to do that,' Trump said of sending 'homegrown' offenders to El Salvador
By David Rutz Fox News
Published April 15, 2025 11:01am EDT

President Donald Trump said in an interview with Fox Noticias, airing Tuesday, that he's open to sending violent American criminals to El Salvador prisons.

"He's made it a very safe place," Trump said of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, whom he welcomed to the White House on Monday. "People go, and they feel very secure and safe. He's also built one but also other prisons. Very big ones, and we're using his system because we're getting rid of our criminals from out of the United States that were allowed to come in by Biden."

"We're getting them out, and the president is helping us with that — President Bukele. So, I was very impressed with him, very, very impressed," Trump added.

When asked by Fox's Rachel Campos-Duffy if the prison could be used for "our own violent criminals," Trump replied that it was possible, saying it could be implemented for what he referred to as "homegrown" offenders.

"The ones that grew up and something went wrong, and they hit people over the head with a baseball bat, and push people into subways just before the train gets there, like you see happening sometimes," Trump said. "We are looking into it, and we want to do it. I would love to do that."

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https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-open-sending-violent-american-criminals-el-salvador-prisons

[Smokin Joe]

WHile sending American Citizens to foreign farm  out prisons would likely violate the 8th Amendment, sending non-citizens out of the country just might be one way to get them to behave --or get them out of the US completely, and not in our prisons recruiting or pulling strings on criminal operations from behind bars.