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El Salvador has agreed to house violent US criminals and receive deportees of any nationality, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Monday, in an unprecedented – and legally problematic deal – that has alarmed critics and rights groups.
Rubio unveiled the agreement after meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, as part of a tour of several Central American countries intended to consolidate regional support for the Trump administration’s immigration policy.
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In addition, Bukele “has offered to house in his jails dangerous American criminals in custody in our country, including those of US citizenship and legal residents,” Rubio said.It is unclear whether the US government will take up the offer, however, with questions around the legality of such moves. Any effort by the Trump administration to deport incarcerated US nationals to another country would face significant legal pushback.
Would it face pushback? What a great way to make your enemies disappear. There is certainly precedent for throwing citizens behind bars just because of the way they look. Why not for the way you think? I knew a Japanese American couple who were raised in HI and there during the war. We discussed the internment camps when I stumbled on the subject via a novel I read, as it certainly was not taught in school. They told me that those in HI mostly escaped internment camps because the economy would have seized without them. However if you brought attention to yourself by protesting what was a violation of your civil rights, you still were sent to a camp, so they learned to keep their head down and mouth shut. Their cousins in WA state were simply rounded up. The family had been in HI and WA for generations at that point.
During World War II, the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ten concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), mostly in the western interior of the country. About two-thirds were U.S. citizens.
Connect the dots.
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