Reporter Asks Tom Homan: Is It Legal For Trump To Send U.S. Citizen Prisoners To El Salvador?

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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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00:00Roosevelt Hotel is not, it's, it's on the table, believe it or not.

00:06I'm certainly not going to forecast when we're going to do an operation on anything.

00:09Thank you, Mr. Huffman, you're the immigration expert here.

00:11The president is now floating this idea of sending American prisoners to a prison in El Salvador.

00:16Do you believe that that would be legal?

00:18You know, someone mentioned that to me this morning.

00:20I haven't yet talked to the president.

00:21I just got back in town yesterday, so I haven't had that conversation,

00:24what that conversation was about, where it come from.

00:27So I'm not going to comment on that until I speak to the president directly.

00:29But do you know if the top of your head has been legal, or what would your,

00:32I mean, you have obviously worked in a bridge under President Obama, now under President Trump.

00:36Do you believe that it would be legal to send American prisoners?

00:38I don't know, I don't know, again, I didn't, I didn't see it, I didn't hear it.

00:41I said, I'll mention this morning, again, I don't know the context of the question was,

00:49I don't know the context of what he was responsible, what he meant by response.

00:52I'd be, I'd be opining on something I really don't have the information on.

00:56I'll get briefed on it, and I'll respond to you later about it, but I'm just unfamiliar with it.

00:59Mr. allin.

01:00Mr. energia.

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