President Trump said this morning in an interview with Fox News that he wants to send America’s homegrown violent criminals to a prison in El Salvador and that his administration is looking into it.

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I think it’s one thing to send illegal gangbangers, who have been deemed as terrorists and ordered deported, to this prison in El Salvador, especially when their own countries won’t take them back.

But it’s very much another thing to send our own violent criminals to a foreign prison outside of America’s jurisdiction, and I really think it sounds like a bad idea – and one that won’t stand up in the court system. This is just a bridge too far and I wish that Trump had never said it, because it gives his critics in the media a reasonable claim to use against him.