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Born in the USA? Not Safe Under Trump’s Prison Plan

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President Trump’s proposal to send U.S. citizens — specifically those convicted of violent crimes — to prisons in El Salvador is almost certainly illegal under current U.S. law and the Constitution. Legal experts overwhelmingly agree there’s no statutory or constitutional authority for deporting native-born U.S. citizens or forcibly transferring them to serve sentences in foreign prisons. But would that matter to Trump’s DOJ if they're already ignoring the courts?

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