WASHINGTON — President Trump mentioned Tuesday that he needs to ship prison US residents to overseas jails and “get these animals out of our country” — after El Salvador’s president made the provide to Secretary of State Marco Rubio a day earlier.
“Frankly, they can keep them,” Trump, 78, instructed reporters within the Oval Workplace, citing New York Metropolis subway shovers as one instance of the form of offender who he’d wish to ship off to international locations which can be identified for harsh dealing with of felons.
“We have hard, hardened criminals, horrible people. You see him pushing people into subways. The train is coming — last week, a guy is walking around, just sees somebody waiting for a train. Train’s coming 40 miles an hour, and he gets pushed into the subway,” Trump mentioned.
“And that happens all the time. These are sick people. If we could get them out of our country, we have other countries that would take them. It’s no different than a prison system, except it would be a lot less expensive and it would be a great deterrent send them to other countries.”
Trump claimed there can be “a very small fee compared to what we pay private prisons.”
The newly inaugurated president mentioned that the concept would pair nicely along with his ongoing effort to deport unlawful immigrants charged with or convicted of crimes.
“We’re talking about getting the criminals out of our country that come in through other countries illegally, right? The illegal migrants, as I call them? Well, we have people that are just as bad as them in our country. If we could get them out, I’d be very happy,” Trump mentioned.
“If we had the authorized proper to do it, I might do it in a heartbeat. I don’t know if we do or not. We’re taking a look at that proper now.
“But we could make deals where we’d get these animals out of our country.”
Trump mentioned that such a plan would solely apply to “the most severe cases.”
“You call them hardened criminals. They’ve been in jail 40 times … And every time the person gets out, it’s [always] a he, every time he gets out, he commits another crime within 24 hours. And it’s a heinous crime. It’s a rough crime. We don’t want these people in our country either,” Trump mentioned.
“Frankly, they could keep them, because these people are never going to be any good. That person that has been 32 times or 22 times or 17 times and is all in for manslaughter and everything else and only gets out because of a very weak judicial system that only goes after people like Trump. They don’t go after the criminals.”
The president mentioned the plan would end in “a lot less crime automatically.”
“I watched that guy on tape pushing the man into the subway last week. That man that did that is a real bad guy. Many arrests, and you think you’re going to convince him someday to be good and a wonderful, wonderful citizen for our country? It is never going to happen. I want to get those people out,” Trump mentioned. “I’d love to get them out along with the illegal migrants.”
