Donald Trump has hinted at sending repeat American offenders to prisons abroad, even if they aren’t in the country illegally.
The president was discussing the success of his mass deportation flights when he floated the idea that foreign countries could take in serial criminals for a ‘small fee.’
He told the House Republican Conference in Doral, Florida, that he doesn’t want U.S. prisons filled with convicts who keep getting arrested, because it is costing the taxpayers.
Instead, he suggested: ‘Let them be brought to a foreign land and maintained by others for a very small fee as opposed to be maintained in our jails for massive amounts of money including the private prison companies that charge us a fortune.’
Trump noted that convicts in the U.S. may soon be exported to countries around the world, likening such operations to the 1997 film ‘Con Air’ in which Nicholas Cage makes a daring escape from a plane full of criminals.
‘We also have many violent criminals in our country, however, that did not necessarily come here illegally — but have been arrested 30 times,’ Trump said.
‘I don’t want these violent, repeat offenders in our country any more than I want illegal aliens from other countries who misbehave.’
So the president is looking to ship them out, along with migrants illegally in the U.S., to unspecified countries abroad.
‘300 people sitting in a plane. Every one of them either a murderer, a drug lord, a kingpin of some kind, the head of the mob, or a gang member,’ Trump said of his criminal flight operation.
Already the U.S. has been filling up military planes with migrants to send them back to their home countries.
Aircraft full of scores of migrants, some of whom have criminal wrap sheets, have headed to countries in South America in the week since the president has been in power.
Trump riffed about the flights: ‘If you’re flying that plane … It’s not gonna end well.’
‘You ever see the movie Con Air?’ Trump asked referencing the Cage movie.
‘Except here’s the difference – the people in Con Air were actors, they weren’t nearly as tough as these guys.’
‘I don’t want to be in that plane,’ he continued.
Trump joked that the pilots would ‘be gone’ before the plane even left, noting the dangers of running the deportation operations.
‘I don’t want these violent repeat offenders in our country anymore. If they’ve been arrested many many times, I want them out of our country,’ he continued.
The president’s remarks on flights for criminals comes on the heels of a spat he has had with Colombian President Gustavo Petro after the South American country refused to accept deportation flights from the U.S.
Trump, in retaliation for the order, immediately announced sanctions against the South American country and its government officials.
Following the Republican’s retaliatory actions against Colombia the country soon backtracked and Petro even offered his presidential plane to facilitate deportation flights from the U.S.
During his remarks at the GOP retreat the president also floated getting rid of the federal income tax.
‘It’s time for the United States to return to the system that made us richer and more powerful than ever before,’ he said.
‘Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich foreign nations, we should be tariffing and taxing foreign nations to enrich our citizens.’
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