Fox & Friends Co-Hosts Question Trump’s Authority to Send U.S. ‘Home Growns’ to Notorious El Salvador Prison: ‘Legally, That Might Be Challenging’

Fox News co-hosts don’t appear too certain about the legality of President Donald Trump’s apparent desire to send “homegrown” American prisoners to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT facility, which has been accepting deported migrants from the U.S.

It all went down as the Fox & Friends curvy couch tackled the issue of illegal immigration during a segment early Tuesday.

Ainsley Earhardt remarked how the prison is keeping crime down in El Salvador when co-host Steve Doocy mentioned the chilling comments by Trump at the White House during a visit from the country’s President Nayib Bukele.

“Well, and the president mentioned that yesterday they might do something with the ‘home growns’, people from the United States. I don’t know exactly how that would work. More on that throughout the day,” Doocy said.

Brian Kilmeade followed up, adding: “Legally, that might be challenging.”

Read the full exchange here:

BRIAN KILMEADE: The bigger story is what has happened with illegal immigration in America. We have shut down the water. We are building a wall. We’re putting concertina wire on our side of the wall. If they jump, they’re gonna get a chest full of razors. What has happened on every aspect is unbelievable. Along with checking everyone’s immigration status. Hidden from all angles. This is a story. But the bigger story nobody seems to want to talk about.

AINSLEY EARHARDT: Yeah, could you imagine if our prisons were like the one in El Salvador where you’re in shackles.

LAWRENCE JONES: So true.

EARHARDT: It’s a harsh prison. Look what’s happening in El Salvador. They love this president down there because he has made it so much safer. You talk to anyone who is here from El Salvador. They will say, ‘When we go back home, it is so much safer.’ They would bring money from America and people would shake them down for that money. People who are working here legally, are citizens, they send money back home and then their parents are in jeopardy. They have to live in poor conditions if they show they are getting money from their that works in America, then they’re at risk. But not anymore. The neighborhoods are cleaned up because of this president. And it’s because if you get caught doing something illegally down there, you’re thrown in these maximum security prisons. And you are treated the way you see these videos. If we did that here in America, maybe the crime would go down even more.

STEVE DOOCY: Well, and the president mentioned that yesterday. They might do something with the home-growns, people from the United States. I don’t know exactly how that would work. More on that throughout the day.

KILMEADE: Legally, that might be challenging.

After Aaron Rupar captured and published a rough video conversation between the two presidents on social media, The Atlantic’s Jonathan Lemire shared the video with context: “Before pool entered, this exchange was captured on the El Salvador government’s live stream.Trump endorses sending ‘homegrown’ U.S. prisoners to El Salvador — meaning American citizens to notorious foreign prisons.”

“I’d like to go a step further. I mean, I said it to [Attorney General] Pam [Bondi] I don’t know what the laws are — we always have to obey the laws — but we also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways that hit elderly ladies on the back of the head with a baseball bat when they’re not looking, that are absolute monsters,” Trump said at the White House Monday. “I’d like to include them in the group of people to get them out of the country, but you’ll have to be looking at the laws on that.”

Experts have noted that there is no legal way for the president to send legal US citizens to foreign prisons.

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