Karoline Leavitt outlines how Americans could face deportation to ‘Hell on Earth’ El Salvadorian prison

WASHINGTON, DC: Donald Trump’s latest idea is raising hell. 

The US president is reportedly toying with the jaw-dropping plan of deporting violent American criminals to El Salvador’s notorious mega-prison, the details of which sound like something straight out of a dystopian thriller.

According to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Trump is considering the idea of shipping some of the country’s worst offenders straight to the Terrorism Confinement Center (dubbed the “black hole of human rights”).

“It is an idea he has simply floated,” Leavitt told reporters in a press conference.

But this isn’t about tossing everyone into a third-world prison. Leavitt explained that this move would be reserved for the worst of the worst.

“These would be heinous, violent criminals,” she said. “These are violent repeat offenders.”

Trump is considering El Salvador President Nayib Bukele’s offer

The idea apparently stems from a controversial offer made by El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, who in February suggested a US partnership to “outsource part of its prison system.”

“We are willing to take in only convicted criminals (including convicted U.S. citizens) into our mega-prison... in exchange for a fee,” Bukele posted on X.

Trump is eating it up.

“I love it,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One. “If he would take them, I’d be honored to give them. I don’t know what the law says on that, but I can’t imagine the law would say anything different. If they can house these horrible criminals for a lot less money than it costs us, I’m all for it.”

But even Leavitt had to pump the brakes on the idea.

“The president has said if there is a legal pathway. He’s not sure. We’re not sure if there is. It’s simply an idea that he has floated,” she reiterated.

Trump has already sent gang members to El Salvador prison

Trump has already sent 238 alleged members of Venezuela’s feared Tren de Aragua gang to the El Salvador prison.

To make it happen, Trump dusted off the Alien Enemies Act - a rarely used wartime law that’s only been invoked three times in history. The Supreme Court sided with him, ruling that he had the authority to carry out the deportations, the Daily Mail noted.

But even with the win, there’s been some major blowback. Critics slammed the way the deportations were handled, pointing out that the individuals didn’t receive any sort of warning or chance to fight their removal.

The ruling admitted as much, stating that deportees are still "entitled to notice and an opportunity to challenge their removal."

There’s also been pushback on who exactly got deported - with allegations that the government’s method of identifying gang members was shaky at best.

Inside the 'Hell on Earth' super-prison

Life inside this Salvadoran mega-prison is plain horrifying.

Prisoners reportedly spend 23.5 hours a day in overcrowded cells. They get 30 minutes to “stretch” - while chained in a hallway. No cell phones, no visitors, and no outdoor time. 

Cells are crammed with up to 100 detainees, sleeping on bare iron bunks - no mattresses. Furthermore, each cell gets just two toilets and two sinks for everyone.

That’s not all. Staff, guards, and prisoners have to pass through three heavy-security gates just to move through the prison. Each pavilion also contains a dark, windowless punishment cell for the so-called troublemakers.

Furthermore, the temperatures are sweltering due to no ventilation and no windows. Just boiling, stifling heat.

Critics have described the facility as a “black hole of human rights," with many warning that it flagrantly violates international law.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor sounds the alarm

After the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor pushed back. 

“The implication of the Government's position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal," she wrote in her dissent.

“History is no stranger to such lawless regimes, but this Nation’s system of laws is designed to prevent, not enable, their rise," Sotomayor added.

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