Summary
Donald Trump suggested deporting violent repeat American offenders to foreign countries willing to incarcerate them for a small fee.
The proposal, shared at a Republican retreat in Florida, has no legal precedent in the U.S. and would require new legislation.
Critics cite constitutional concerns, including the Eighth Amendment that prohibits “cruel and unusual punishments.”
The idea follows Trump’s broader crackdown on illegal immigration, which a recent poll shows has significant bipartisan support.
Should they start with people convicted of 33 or more felonies?
Sounds like an excuse to put people into work camps as they perpetually wait for somewhere to be deported to. (Hint: The camp is the destination.)
2026: Hmmm, these camps are looking pretty full, and deportation is super expensive. We really need to solve this problem once and for all
Finally, one might say.
A Solution, if you will…
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Finally, the
they’re sending us their criminals
projection comes into full view.
“For a small fee”
Isn’t this just buying people? I seem to remember something like this happenening before.
Yeah this is just human trafficking.
To where? Who is going to take them?
It’s a short walk from “Mexico is sending us their criminals” to “We should send our criminals to Mexico.”
Well, if British recent history is to be followed, Rwanda.
Those “criminals” were asylum seekers.
That’s a perspective thing these days
There’s precedent for doing this internationally. For example, Belgium pays the Netherlands to house some of their prisoners instead of building new prisons because the Netherlands has spare capacity and it’s easier than building new prisons.
I doubt that this sort of thing is what Trump has in mind though.
I’ll happily take a spot in a Nordic prison.
fucking lol the irony
Wouldn’t be surprised if this stupid fuck sends them to Russia as meat shields in Ukraine.
I can’t believe it. His followers have been telling me that he only wants to deport illegal immigrants! I’m shocked at this totally unexpected rhetoric!
It’s a good thing he’s too illiterate to have read Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony” and figured out that there could be a literal, corporeal form of sentencing. 34 would be a heck of a time.
He sould see how, symmetrically, other countries would be in their right to send their own criminals to the USA … yet, being a criminal himself, he would never admit it.
Isn’t that against the 8th amendment? (Is it the 8th?)
I bet inflation in us sky rocket… Export wil shrink too because other country’s wil add more tax on us products… as Healthcare become a 3th world country only the riches
