DoomsdaysCW<p>Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USCitizens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USCitizens</span></a> to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElSalvador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElSalvador</span></a></p><p>Trump officials are talking internally about <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/denaturalizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>denaturalizing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmericanCitizens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanCitizens</span></a> — and potentially sending some to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElSalvador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElSalvador</span></a></p><p>By Nikki McCann Ramirez, Asawin Suebsaeng, Andrew Perez - April 12, 2025</p><p>"Donald <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> and his White House have moved to deport <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreenCard</span></a> holders for espousing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProPalestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProPalestinian</span></a> views, shipped hundreds of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/migrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>migrants</span></a> to a notorious <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Salvadoran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Salvadoran</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MegaPrison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MegaPrison</span></a> without due process (in defiance of a judge’s order), and are now publicly musing about sending United States citizens to prison in El Salvador. </p><p>"Trump said last weekend he would 'love' to send American criminals there — and would even be 'honored' to, depending on 'what the law says.' White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed this week that the president has discussed this idea privately, too, adding he would only do this 'if it’s legal.' </p><p>"El Salvador’s president, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nayi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nayi</span></a> Bukele, has for months been offering to hold U.S. citizens in his country’s prison system, which he has turned into 'a judicial black hole' rife with 'systematic <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/torture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>torture</span></a>,' as one <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> advocate recently told Rolling Stone.</p><p>"Legal experts agree that sending American citizens to prison in El Salvador would be flagrantly illegal under both U.S. and international law — and that the idea itself is shockingly <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarian</span></a>, with few parallels in our nation’s history. </p><p>"The Trump administration is indeed discussing this idea behind the scenes, two sources familiar with the matter confirmed to Rolling Stone. In their most serious form, these conversations have revolved around attempting to denaturalize American citizens and deport them to other countries, including El Salvador. </p><p>" 'You can’t deport U.S. citizens. There’s no emergency exception, there’s no special wartime authority, there’s no secret clause. You just can’t deport citizens,' says Steve Vladeck, a legal commentator and law professor at Georgetown. </p><p>" 'Whatever grounds they try to come up with for denaturalization or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/expatriation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>expatriation</span></a>, the one thing that is absolutely undeniable is that people are entitled to individualized processes, before that process can be effectuated.' </p><p>"In the United States, the grounds to strip a naturalized individual of their citizenship encompass serious material offenses. They include: committing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/treason" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>treason</span></a> or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/terrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>terrorism</span></a>, enlisting in a foreign military engaged in opposition to the United States, or lying in applications for citizenship or as part of the naturalization process." </p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-el-salvador-us-citizens-denaturalization-1235315975/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rollingstone.com/politics/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics-features/trump-el-salvador-us-citizens-denaturalization-1235315975/</span></a></p><p>Archived version:<br><a href="https://archive.ph/xliRd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/xliRd</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Orwellian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orwellian</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authorianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authorianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICEDetention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICEDetention</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Deportations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MemoryHoled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MemoryHoled</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Disappeared" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disappeared</span></a></p>