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Sam Levine in New York

Attorney general dodges question on Trump proposal to jail US citizens in El Salvador

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Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, speaks at the justice department in February. Photograph: Craig Hudson/Reuters

The US attorney general, Pam Bondi, declined on Tuesday to say whether Donald Trump’s suggestion of removing US citizens to El Salvador was legal, in alarming remarks about what experts think is an obviously illegal idea.

Trump proposed the idea on Monday in the Oval Office during a visit with El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, who has been accepting people deported from the US and imprisoning them in a gigantic facility notorious for human rights abuses.

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