Trump threatens exile for Americans who are ‘repeat offenders’ and ‘violent criminals’
Trump threatens exile for Americans who are ‘repeat offenders’ and ‘violent criminals’
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So-called ‘penal transportation’ was once commonplace in the United Kingdom but has never been used in the US — it would likely be prohibited under the Eighth Amendment. President Donald Trump on Monday told Republican members of the House of Representatives that he would be putting forward a plan to subject recidivist criminals to a punishment never before used in the United States and last used in the United Kingdom nearly two centuries ago: Forced exile.
Trump, who spoke to House Republicans during a dinner for them at his Doral, Florida golf resort, was musing about his administration’s plan to implement mass deportations of anyone in the United States illegally, telling members that his administration was “tracking down the illegal alien criminals” and “detaining them and we are throwing them the hell out of our country” with “no apologies” when he pivoted to discussing the alleged relative viciousness of foreign criminals versus native-born American lawbreakers.
“I used to say these are more violent than our criminals. In fact, the best part about them is they make our criminals look quite nice, actually, by comparison,” said Trump, who added that the country also has “many violent people” in it who “did not necessarily come here illegally, but have been arrested 30 times, 35 times. 41, 42 times.”.
Such persons, Trump added, had been arrested for crimes such as “murder and other heinous charges such as pushing people into subways” or striking people with baseball bats, or “punching old ladies in the face, knocking them unconscious and stealing their purse.”.
