On Monday, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele joined Donald Trump in the Oval Office for a summit that will live on in national infamy. It will be remembered as the day Trump revealed the next phase of his attack on America’s bedrock legal principles.

“Homegrown criminals are next," Trump told the assembled reporters. “I said homegrowns are next, the homegrowns. You gotta build about five more places. I’d like to include them in the group of people to get them out of the country.”

My fellow Americans, he’s talking about us.

The idea that Trump would deport U.S. citizens to specially built foreign mega-prisons outside the reach of the American justice system should cause a national shockwave. After all, Trump’s definition of a “criminal” deportable to such a place includes 179 men who may not have committed crimes at all.

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