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Reporter Asks Tom Homan: Is It Legal For Trump To Send U.S. Citizen Prisoners To El Salvador?
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4/16/2025
At a press gaggle yesterday, Border Czar Tom Homan was asked about whether it's legal for President Trump to send U.S. citizen prisoners to an El Salvador prison.
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Roosevelt Hotel is not, it's, it's on the table, believe it or not.
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I'm certainly not going to forecast when we're going to do an operation on anything.
00:09
Thank you, Mr. Huffman, you're the immigration expert here.
00:11
The president is now floating this idea of sending American prisoners to a prison in El Salvador.
00:16
Do you believe that that would be legal?
00:18
You know, someone mentioned that to me this morning.
00:20
I haven't yet talked to the president.
00:21
I just got back in town yesterday, so I haven't had that conversation,
00:24
what that conversation was about, where it come from.
00:27
So I'm not going to comment on that until I speak to the president directly.
00:29
But do you know if the top of your head has been legal, or what would your,
00:32
I mean, you have obviously worked in a bridge under President Obama, now under President Trump.
00:36
Do you believe that it would be legal to send American prisoners?
00:38
I don't know, I don't know, again, I didn't, I didn't see it, I didn't hear it.
00:41
I said, I'll mention this morning, again, I don't know the context of the question was,
00:49
I don't know the context of what he was responsible, what he meant by response.
00:52
I'd be, I'd be opining on something I really don't have the information on.
00:56
I'll get briefed on it, and I'll respond to you later about it, but I'm just unfamiliar with it.
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