'Homegrowns are next': Trump provokes fears for Black US citizens with legally dubious deportation proposal
Source: theGrio
‘Homegrowns are next’: Trump provokes fears for Black US citizens with legally dubious deportation proposal
Gerren Keith Gaynor
Mon, April 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM EDT 4 min read
A policy that even considers targeting American citizens lays the groundwork for mass deportation campaigns that will disproportionately impact Black immigrants,” said Jamarr Brown, executive director at Color of Change PAC.
After the Trump administration deported hundreds of undocumented migrants accused of being violent gang members to El Salvador, President Donald Trump on Monday appeared to imply he will explore deporting U.S. citizens who commit violent crimes.
“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 told reporters inside the Oval Office while hosting El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, who has cooperated with the Trump administration by accepting deportees to his country and holding them in prisons.
“I’d like to include them in the group of people to get them out of the country,” added Trump. The president emphasized that he would only do so by following the law, though he admitted, “I don’t know what the laws are.” Trump explained that Attorney General Pam Bondi is studying the law on the matter.
Trump’s remarks on Monday signal an escalation of an unprecedented (and likely illegal) proposal to deport U.S. citizens. ...
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