This would allow them to deport Black Americans.
Rubio praised the prospect of exiling “dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentences in the United States, even if they’re U.S. citizens or legal residents” to a foreign prison as the most “extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world.”
President Bukele confirmed in a post on X that “in exchange for a fee,” he’s offering the U.S. a chance to outsource part of its prison system. He added that the money they’d make from this would be significant enough to make El Salvador’s “entire prison system sustainable.” Elon Musk also chimed in on X, calling the tentative prison deal a “great idea!”
How much is one American body worth? The Bureau of Prisons reported the average annual cost of incarceration per prisoner in 2022 was $42,672. And the Bureau of Justice Statistics approximates the total annual cost of incarceration is $80.7 billion for public prisons and jails, and an additional $3.9 billion for private prisons and jails.
We spend more to detain prisoners here in the U.S. than El Salvador earns for all their goods and services annually. El Salvador’s total gross domestic product (GDP) was worth $34 billion US dollars in 2023.
So not only does this Trump administration want to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented parents, but they’re also seriously considering revoking the citizenship of natural born and naturalized Americans as punishment for a crime. Speaking earnestly of his desire to make the slave trade great again, Trump said about El Salvador’s offer, “If we had the legal right to do it, I’d do it in a heartbeat.”
Referring to “shooters,” or people who engage in gun violence, as animals, Trump told the reporters, “If we had the option to get them out and let them be based in some other country at a fraction of the costs, then frankly they could keep them because these people are never going to be any good.”
This rhetoric creates a stark divide between Americans whom Trump deems good and deserving of constitutional protections and those whom he deems bad and deserving of cruel and unusual punishment. Black America, be wary. We cannot afford to let this man pit us against each other the same way he has divided and conquered the Latinx community.
Black intra-communal violence in Chicago is going to get us all — the guilty, the innocent, the perpetrators, and the victims alike — caught up in some bullshit. Trump specifically said he’d love to send Chicagoans to El Salvador’s Counter-Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT).
“Look at Chicago,” Trump said with as much disgust for us as we have for him. “The volume of crime they have and the viciousness of the crime. These people are horrible people. And if somebody thinks they’re going to be wonderful citizens someday, they’re wrong. It’s not going to happen.”
He continued,” I’d love to get them the hell out of our country.”
Trump meant every wild ass word he said. I find no comfort in the fact that it’s absolutely illegal and unconstitutional to deport American citizens. It’s also absolutely illegal and unconstitutional for Trump to be president again after having incited an insurrection and attempted a coup. Rule of law is really just a ruse at this point. On Feb. 15, Trump blatantly wrote on Truth Social and X, “He who saves his Country does not violate any law.”
It may take some time for him to figure out the whole prisoner exile thing, but Trump is for sure going to send federal agents to terrorize Black Chicago communities. America’s already-reprehensible jail and prison conditions are going to get much worse.
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