Summary

Donald Trump suggested deporting violent repeat American offenders to foreign countries willing to incarcerate them for a small fee.

The proposal, shared at a Republican retreat in Florida, has no legal precedent in the U.S. and would require new legislation.

Critics cite constitutional concerns, including the Eighth Amendment that prohibits “cruel and unusual punishments.”

The idea follows Trump’s broader crackdown on illegal immigration, which a recent poll shows has significant bipartisan support.

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    I bet inflation in us sky rocket… Export wil shrink too because other country’s wil add more tax on us products… as Healthcare become a 3th world country only the riches

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    Yeah this “proposal” violates literally everything about the Constitution.

    This is just exile but with more words, which is not allowed under the immunities clause of the US Constitution.

    Every person has rights to exercise due process within the several states, exile explicitly removes this.

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      Trump doesn’t give a shit about the Constitution. He makes the rules. Checks and Balances? The only way that resonates with him is the checks he receives and his bank balances increasing.

      He will take every inch given to him.

      And just to be clear, I don’t disagree with anything you said.

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    He sould see how, symmetrically, other countries would be in their right to send their own criminals to the USA … yet, being a criminal himself, he would never admit it.

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    Sounds like an excuse to put people into work camps as they perpetually wait for somewhere to be deported to. (Hint: The camp is the destination.)

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    Next step: defining trans people as criminals

    Florida has been trying (via the “child abuser” route) as a way to get us the death penalty

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      There’s already another plan for trans folk. They’ll claim it’s a mental illness and send them to RFK’s “wellness camps” to replace some of the migrant workers they’re deporting.

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    I don’t think the domestic prison slave industry would appreciate that very much.

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    Finally, the

    they’re sending us their criminals

    projection comes into full view.

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    It’s a good thing he’s too illiterate to have read Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony” and figured out that there could be a literal, corporeal form of sentencing. 34 would be a heck of a time.

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    I can’t believe it. His followers have been telling me that he only wants to deport illegal immigrants! I’m shocked at this totally unexpected rhetoric!

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    “For a small fee”

    Isn’t this just buying people? I seem to remember something like this happenening before.