Elliot Williams on Legality of Sending American Criminals to El Salvador: ‘No, God, No’

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COLLINS: “But can I ask, the other thing he said there, and though, in terms of Bukele, was saying essentially that he should start building more prisons in El Salvador, and the President said he would like to send American prisoners to El Salvador, and was arguing that the Attorney General was looking into the legality of that.”
WILLIAMS: “Yes. And he —“
COLLINS: “Is there any basis for that?”
WILLIAMS: “No, God no, and it’s — and we’re not even talking about immigration here. It sound like he was talking about sending American criminal prisoners in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution.”