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.

  • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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    Should they start with people convicted of 33 or more felonies?

  • Riskable
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    1062 days ago

    By “criminals” he means his political enemies.

  • @TommySoda
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    702 days ago

    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.)

    • @rockSlayer
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      482 days ago

      2026: Hmmm, these camps are looking pretty full, and deportation is super expensive. We really need to solve this problem once and for all

    • @[email protected]
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      82 days ago

      Once the migrants are gone, there will be so many job opportunities in agriculture!

      Agriculture macht frei.

  • plz1
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    492 days ago

    Finally, the

    they’re sending us their criminals

    projection comes into full view.

  • IHeartBadCode
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    572 days ago

    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.

    • @kmartburrito
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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.

    • @alekwithak
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      72 days ago

      The what? Look, you can’t just make up words.

  • @[email protected]
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    302 days ago

    “For a small fee”

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

  • Tiefling IRL
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    282 days ago

    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

    • @[email protected]
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      62 days ago

      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.

  • @[email protected]
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    152 days ago

    They said Hitler was protected by the devil himself. He survived 42 (or more) assassination plots.

    42 attempts on Hitler, where as he and his Death Cult were responsible for almost 21m murders.

    Trump doesn’t give a damn about the constitution, because the supreme Court will grant him whatever he fucking wants. When he can’t concentrate Jews, people of color, people of non-white descent, political dissenters, LGBTQ+, physically and intellectually disabled, and people who refuse orders to persecute the preceding people in deportation camps, he will cull them.

    42 attempts to reduce 20,900,000 murders? That’s it. A whole fucking war was waged against Nazi Germany, but only 42 attempts to cut the head off the snake.

    • @tburkhol
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      222 days ago

      It’s a short walk from “Mexico is sending us their criminals” to “We should send our criminals to Mexico.”

    • @randon31415
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      202 days ago

      Well, if British recent history is to be followed, Rwanda.

    • @[email protected]
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      102 days ago

      There’s precedent for doing this internationally. For example, Belgium pays the Netherlands to house some of their prisoners instead of building new prisons because the Netherlands has spare capacity and it’s easier than building new prisons.

      I doubt that this sort of thing is what Trump has in mind though.

    • Kraiden
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      42 days ago

      We’ll figure that out later. In the mean time, lets just keep them concentrated in one place, like a resort… or camp

  • WideEyedStupid
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    102 days ago

    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!

  • @FiremanEdsRevenge
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    82 days ago

    Wouldn’t be surprised if this stupid fuck sends them to Russia as meat shields in Ukraine.

  • @thesohoriots
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    62 days ago

    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.