Trump Suggests Deporting U.S.-Born Criminals to Foreign Countries Amid Criticism

President Donald Trump stirred controversy on Monday by suggesting that not only undocumented immigrants but also U.S.-born citizens who commit crimes should be deported. The remarks were made during a House Republican conference meeting at Trump National Doral in Miami, Florida.

Trump began his speech by touting his administration’s tough stance on undocumented immigrants, claiming his policies were quickly removing dangerous individuals from the United States. “We have no apologies, and we’re moving very fast,” he said, labeling undocumented immigrants as “very dangerous people.”

“They’re violent people. I used to say these are more violent than our criminals. In fact, the best part about them is they make our criminals look quite nice, actually by comparison,” he added.

The former president then shifted his focus to repeat offenders who, he said, may not have entered the country illegally but are responsible for heinous crimes. “They’ve been arrested 30 times, 35 times, 41, 41 times in a couple of cases,” Trump said, listing alleged offenses, including murder, subway shoving, and assaults on elderly people.

Examples he cited included “hitting people in the heads with baseball bats when they’re not looking,” “punching old ladies in the face, knocking them unconscious and stealing their purse,” and “breaking into apartments, sexually assaulting elderly women, and beating elderly men.”

“I don’t want these violent repeat offenders in our country any more than I want illegal aliens from other countries who misbehave,” Trump declared. “If they’ve been arrested many, many times, they’re repeat offenders by many numbers, I want them out of our country.”

Trump said he would seek legal authorization “hopefully” to deport these individuals. “Let them be brought to a foreign land and maintained by others for a very small fee as opposed to being maintained in our jails for massive amounts of money, including the private prison companies that charge us a fortune,” he said.

The former president added, “Let them be brought out of our country and let them live there for a while. Let’s see how they like it. You’ll see crime all over the country dry up essentially. That’s what Venezuela and other countries are doing.”

Trump’s remarks drew sharp criticism from legal experts and human rights advocates, who pointed out that deporting U.S. citizens would violate constitutional protections. Critics also questioned the feasibility and ethics of such a policy, likening it to proposals from authoritarian regimes.

As Trump continues to champion hardline policies on crime and immigration, his statements are expected to remain a polarizing feature of his political rhetoric, raising questions about their alignment with constitutional norms and international standards.