President Donald Trump suggested on Monday that the United States could pay a “small tariff” to foreign countries to imprison Americans who are repeated criminal criminals, floating a kind of modern criminal colony.
Trump announced the idea as a cost savings measure in the comments at a conference for Republicans of the House of Representatives in Miami.
“If many have been arrested, many times, they are repeat criminals for many numbers, I want them outside our country,” he said. “With luck, we will obtain approval to get them out of our country, along with others, to bring them to a foreign land and keep them for others for a very small rate.”
Trump said doing so would allow the Federal Government to avoid using the United States prisons “for massive amounts of money” and private prisons, which said “to charge us a fortune.”
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He presented the idea as separated from the efforts that are now underway to deport migrants living in the United States illegally that they say they have a criminal record. Trump acknowledged that he would need to obtain such a “approved” plan.
At the beginning of the 18th century, Great Britain sent convicts to the American colonies, a trade that ended with the beginning of the American revolution. Great Britain soon began to look for an alternative area of forced exile and landed in Australia.
The Trump administration is pressing aggressively to reduce the federal budget. Its newly created “Government Efficiency Department”, led by the technological tycoon Elon Musk, has already boasted to save more than $ 560 million in government expenses through programs, contracts and leases.
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Trump’s comments occur in the midst of high profile efforts to repatriate migrants who have illegally entered the country.
Since he assumed the position a week ago, Trump has increased deportation efforts, and during the weekend, the Colombian government armed to accept deportened planes or face potentially devastating commercial sanctions.
“We don’t apologize and move very fast,” Trump said. “I used to say that these are more violent than our criminals. In fact, the best part of them is that they make our criminals look pretty good. ”
It is not known what inspired Trump’s incursion to temporarily exile American citizens to foreign prisons, but argued that violent criminals are, in some cases, free to return after having been arrested 30 times, 35 times, 41, 42 times “.
He described “atrocious charges”, as pushing people to the approximated metro trains, hitting people in the head with baseball bats and “hitting the old people in the face, calling them unconscious and stealing their bag.”
Trump said he believed that the crime would dry if the United States expelled criminals in the country to live elsewhere “for a while.” And he said that other countries were already doing it.
“That they are taken from our country and let them live there for a while,” Trump said. “Let’s see how they like it.”
