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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ariana Baio

Top Trump GOP allies speak out against plan to send citizens to overseas prisons: ‘I doubt that would hold up’

Even President Donald Trump’s congressional allies doubt the administration has the authority to send U.S. citizens who commit crimes to prisons overseas.

Last month, the president floated the idea of sending “homegrowns” to foreign prisons, such as El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, where the administration has placed undocumented immigrants, and even those with legal status,

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